Esther 8:16
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16 The Jews had (A)light and gladness and joy and honor.
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Psalm 97:11
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- Psalm 97:11 Most Hebrew manuscripts; one Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac, Jerome Light dawns
Proverbs 11:10
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10 (A)When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,
and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.
Psalm 30:5-11
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5 (A)For his anger is but for a moment,
and (B)his favor is for a lifetime.[a]
(C)Weeping may tarry for the night,
but (D)joy comes with the morning.
6 As for me, I said in my (E)prosperity,
“I shall never be (F)moved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord,
you made my (G)mountain stand strong;
you (H)hid your face;
I was (I)dismayed.
8 To you, O Lord, I cry,
and (J)to the Lord I plead for mercy:
9 “What profit is there in my death,[b]
if I go down to the pit?[c]
Will (K)the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
10 (L)Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”
11 You have turned for me my mourning into (M)dancing;
you have loosed my sackcloth
and clothed me with gladness,
Footnotes
- Psalm 30:5 Or and in his favor is life
- Psalm 30:9 Hebrew in my blood
- Psalm 30:9 Or to corruption
Esther 4:1-3
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Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
4 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes (A)and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2 He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth. 3 And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, (B)with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them (C)lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Isaiah 35:10
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10 (A)And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
(B)everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isaiah 30:29-30
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29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, (A)as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to (B)the mountain of the Lord, to (C)the Rock of Israel. 30 And the Lord (D)will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger (E)and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst (F)and storm and hailstones.
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Psalm 112:4
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Psalm 18:28
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28 For it is you who light my (A)lamp;
the Lord my God lightens my darkness.
Esther 9:17
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17 This was (A)on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.
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Esther 4:16
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16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for (A)three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, (B)and if I perish, I perish.”[a]
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- Esther 4:16 Hebrew if I am destroyed, then I will be destroyed
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