23 (A)Kings shall be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.
(B)With their faces to the ground they shall bow down to you,
    and (C)lick the dust of your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
    (D)those who wait for me (E)shall not be put to shame.”

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14 (A)The sons of those who afflicted you
    shall come bending low to you,
(B)and all who despised you
    shall bow down at your feet;
(C)they shall call you the City of the Lord,
    the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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16 (A)You shall suck the milk of nations;
    you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that (B)I, the Lord, am your Savior
    and your Redeemer, (C)the Mighty One of Jacob.

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10 (A)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
    and (B)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
    but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (C)Your gates shall be open continually;
    day and night they shall not be shut,
(D)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
    with their kings led in procession.

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(A)And nations shall come to your light,
    and kings to the brightness of your rising.

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17 (A)they shall lick the dust like a serpent,
    like the crawling things of the earth;
(B)they shall come trembling out of their strongholds;
    (C)they shall turn in dread to the Lord our God,
    and they shall be in fear of you.

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11 For the Scripture says, (A)“Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame.”

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The Lord, the Only Savior

14 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“The wealth of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush,
    and the Sabeans, men of stature,
shall come over to you (B)and be yours;
    they shall follow you;
    they shall come over in chains and bow down to you.
They will plead with you, saying:
    ‘Surely God is in you, and there is no other,
    no god besides him.’”

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Indeed, (A)none who wait for you shall be put to shame;
    they shall be ashamed who are (B)wantonly (C)treacherous.

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It will be said on that day,
    “Behold, this is our God; (A)we have waited for him, that he might save us.
    This is the Lord; we have waited for him;
    (B)let us be glad and rejoice in his salvation.”

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22 The Lord (A)redeems the life of his servants;
    none of those who take refuge in him will be (B)condemned.

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Behold, I will make those of (A)the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews and are not, but lie—behold, (B)I will make them come and bow down before your feet, and they will learn that (C)I have loved you.

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(A)From of old no one has heard
    or perceived by the ear,
(B)no eye has seen a God besides you,
    who acts for those who wait for him.

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(A)The nations shall see your righteousness,
    and all the kings your glory,
(B)and you shall be called by a new name
    that the mouth of the Lord will give.

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Thus says the Lord,
    (A)the Redeemer of Israel and his Holy One,
(B)to one deeply despised, abhorred by the nation,
    the servant of rulers:
(C)“Kings shall see and arise;
    princes, and they shall prostrate themselves;
because of the Lord, who is faithful,
    the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you.”

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May desert tribes (A)bow down before him,
    and his enemies (B)lick the dust!
10 May the kings of (C)Tarshish and of (D)the coastlands
    render him (E)tribute;
may the kings of (F)Sheba and (G)Seba
    bring gifts!
11 May all kings (H)fall down before him,
    all nations serve him!

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Esther Saves the Jews

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, (A)the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told (B)what he was to her. (C)And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

Then Esther spoke again to the king. She fell at his feet and wept and pleaded with him to avert the evil plan of Haman (D)the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews. (E)When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king. And she said, “If it please the king, (F)and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke (G)the letters devised by Haman (H)the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. For how can I bear (I)to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, (J)I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows,[a] because he intended to lay hands on the Jews. But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, (K)and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring (L)cannot be revoked.”

(M)The king's scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to (N)the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces (O)from India to Ethiopia, (P)127 provinces, (Q)to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language. 10 (R)And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus (S)and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on (T)swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud,

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 8:7 Or wooden beam (see note on 2:23)

Let the work on this house of God alone. Let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its site. Moreover, (A)I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these elders of the Jews for the rebuilding of this house of God. The cost is to be paid to these men in full and without delay from the royal revenue, the tribute of the province from Beyond the River. And whatever is needed—bulls, rams, or sheep for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, or oil, as the priests at Jerusalem require—let that be given to them day by day without fail, 10 that they may offer pleasing sacrifices to the God of heaven (B)and pray for the life of the king and his sons. 11 Also I make a decree that if anyone alters this edict, a beam shall be pulled out of his house, and he shall be impaled on it, and (C)his house shall be made a dunghill. 12 May the God (D)who has caused his name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who shall put out a hand to alter this, or to destroy this house of God that is in Jerusalem. I Darius make a decree; let it be done with all diligence.”

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12 Did I conceive all this people? Did I give them birth, that you should say to me, (A)‘Carry them in your bosom, as a (B)nurse carries a nursing child,’ to the land (C)that you swore to give their fathers?

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24 By its light (A)will the nations walk, and the kings of the earth (B)will bring their glory into it, 25 and (C)its gates will never be shut by day—and (D)there will be no night there. 26 They will bring into it the glory and the honor of the nations.

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For it stands in Scripture:

(A)“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone,
    a cornerstone chosen and precious,
(B)and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

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33 as it is written,

(A)“Behold, I am laying in Zion (B)a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
    (C)and whoever believes in him will not be (D)put to shame.”

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and (A)hope does not put us to shame, because God's love (B)has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

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27 (A)You shall know that I am (B)in the midst of Israel,
    and that (C)I am the Lord your God (D)and there is none else.
And my people (E)shall never again be put to shame.

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15 so (A)shall he sprinkle[a] many nations.
    (B)Kings shall shut their mouths because of him,
(C)for that which has not been told them they see,
    and that which they have not heard they understand.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 52:15 Or startle

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