Esther 8:16
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16 For the Jews there was light and gladness, joy and honor.
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Psalm 97:11
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Notas al pie
- 97.11 Gk Syr Jerome: Heb is sown
Proverbs 11:10
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10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,
and when the wicked perish, there is jubilation.(A)
Psalm 30:5-11
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5 For his anger is but for a moment;
his favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may linger for the night,
but joy comes with the morning.(A)
6 As for me, I said in my prosperity,
“I shall never be moved.”
7 By your favor, O Lord,
you had established me as a strong mountain;
you hid your face;
I was dismayed.(B)
8 To you, O Lord, I cried,
and to the Lord I made supplication:
9 “What profit is there in my death,
if I go down to the Pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?(C)
10 Hear, O Lord, and be gracious to me!
O Lord, be my helper!”[a]
11 You have turned my mourning into dancing;
you have taken off my sackcloth
and clothed me with joy,(D)
Notas al pie
- 30.10 Or The Lord heard and was gracious to me; the Lord became my helper
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 and put on sackcloth and ashes and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;(A) 2 he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 In every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.(B)
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Isaiah 35:10
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10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return
and come to Zion with singing;
everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;
they shall obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.(A)
Isaiah 30:29-30
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29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy festival is kept and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.(A) 30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.(B)
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Proverbs 4:18-19
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18 But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn,
which shines brighter and brighter until full day.(A)
19 The way of the wicked is like deep darkness;
they do not know what they stumble over.(B)
Psalm 112:4
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4 They rise in the darkness as a light for the upright;
they are gracious, merciful, and righteous.(A)
Psalm 18:28
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28 It is you who light my lamp;
the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.(A)
Esther 9:17
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17 This was 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.(A)
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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 neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”(A)
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