4894 verses about World

and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

Today, the princesses of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen’s deed will tell all the king’s princes. This will cause much contempt and wrath.

“If it pleases the king, let a royal commandment go from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be altered, that Vashti may never again come before King Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate to another who is better than she.

Let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the beautiful young virgins to the citadel of Susa, to the women’s house, to the custody of Hegai the king’s eunuch, keeper of the women. Let cosmetics be given them;

and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.” The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

So, when the king’s commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to the citadel of Susa, to the custody of Hegai, Esther was taken into the king’s house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

When the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down, and paid homage to Haman; for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai didn’t bow down or pay him homage.

But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.

Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s satraps, and to the governors who were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus, and it was sealed with the king’s ring.

A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the satraps, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.

His possessions also were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the children of the east.

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Then Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Yahweh said to Satan, “Where have you come from?” Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “From going back and forth in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.”

Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to rouse up leviathan.

with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

They meet with darkness in the day time, and grope at noonday as in the night.

Which are black by reason of the ice, in which the snow hides itself.

“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

Whose confidence shall break apart, Whose trust is a spider’s web.

He shall lean on his house, but it shall not stand. He shall cling to it, but it shall not endure.

He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”

In the thought of him who is at ease there is contempt for misfortune. It is ready for them whose foot slips.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.

“But ask the animals, now, and they shall teach you; the birds of the sky, and they shall tell you.

He loosens the bond of kings. He binds their waist with a belt.

He leads priests away stripped, and overthrows the mighty.

He increases the nations, and he destroys them. He enlarges the nations, and he leads them captive.

He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

They grope in the dark without light. He makes them stagger like a drunken man.

He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

The waters wear the stones. The torrents of it wash away the dust of the earth. So you destroy the hope of man.

how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!

the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.

He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps.

He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

For the company of the godless shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

They conceive mischief, and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

If I have said to corruption, ‘You are my father;’ to the worm, ‘My mother,’ and ‘my sister;’

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.

He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

Those who come after shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were frightened.

Don’t you know this from old time, since man was placed on earth,

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, ‘Where is he?’

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

“Though wickedness is sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue,

He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

There was nothing left that he didn’t devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him.

The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him.

The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath.

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.

Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn’t see. He walks on the vault of the sky.’

Will you keep the old way, which wicked men have trodden,

who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

who said to God, ‘Depart from us;’ and, ‘What can the Almighty do for us?’

The righteous see it, and are glad. The innocent ridicule them,

There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.

They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for lack of a shelter.

“These are of those who rebel against the light. They don’t know its ways, nor stay in its paths.

The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye shall see me.’ He disguises his face.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

“They are foam on the surface of the waters. Their portion is cursed in the earth. They don’t turn into the way of the vineyards.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Behold, even the moon has no brightness, and the stars are not pure in his sight;

“The departed spirits tremble, those beneath the waters and all that live in them.

He stretches out the north over empty space, and hangs the earth on nothing.

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.