Quotations

«Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.»

«Behold, the eye of the LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy; / To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.»

«Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.»

«All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.»

«Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment: / And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;) / What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? / And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.»

«And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.»

«But if they obey not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.»

«And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.»

«Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.»

«The stones of it are the place of sapphires: and it hath dust of gold.»