שָׁנֶה שָׁנָה

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.