10 In (A)just a little while, the wicked will be no more;
    though you look carefully at (B)his place, he will not be there.

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24 They are exalted (A)a little while, and then (B)are gone;
    they are brought low and gathered up like all others;
    they are (C)cut off like the heads of grain.

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10 he (A)returns no more to his house,
    nor does his (B)place know him anymore.

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10 They cried out with a loud voice, “O Sovereign Lord, (A)holy and true, (B)how long (C)before you will judge and (D)avenge our blood on (E)those who dwell on the earth?” 11 Then they were each given (F)a white robe and (G)told to rest a little longer, (H)until the number of their fellow servants and their brothers[a] (I)should be complete, who were to be killed as they themselves had been.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:11 Or brothers and sisters. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, the plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) may refer either to brothers or to brothers and sisters

(A)The end of all things is at hand; therefore (B)be self-controlled and sober-minded (C)for the sake of your prayers.

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42 (A)The upright see it and are glad,
    and (B)all wickedness shuts its mouth.

43 (C)Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things;
    let them consider the steadfast love of the Lord.

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16 for (A)the wind passes over it, and (B)it is gone,
    and (C)its place knows it no more.

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But God will break you down forever;
    he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
    he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah

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35 (A)I have seen a wicked, ruthless man,
    spreading himself like (B)a green laurel tree.[a]
36 But he passed away,[b] and behold, (C)he was no more;
    though I sought him, he could not be found.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 37:35 The identity of this tree is uncertain
  2. Psalm 37:36 Or But one passed by

36 For (A)you have need of endurance, so that (B)when you have done the will of God you may (C)receive what is promised. 37 For,

(D)“Yet a little while,
    and (E)the coming one will come and will not delay;

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27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house— 28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’

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20 But God said to him, (A)‘Fool! (B)This night (C)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (D)whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one (E)who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”

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16 Those who see you will stare at you
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this (A)the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    (B)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;[a]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like a loathed branch,
(C)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the pit,
    like a dead body trampled underfoot.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:18 Hebrew house

10 (A)The righteous will rejoice when he sees the vengeance;
    he will (B)bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11 Mankind will say, “Surely there is (C)a reward for the righteous;
    surely there is a God who (D)judges on earth.”

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10 (A)So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. (B)Then the wrath of the king abated.

Esther Saves the Jews

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, (C)the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told (D)what he was to her.

18 Truly you set them in (A)slippery places;
    you make them fall to ruin.
19 How they are destroyed (B)in a moment,
    swept away utterly by (C)terrors!
20 Like (D)a dream when one awakes,
    O Lord, when (E)you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.

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10 For he sees (A)that even the wise die;
    (B)the fool and the stupid alike must perish
    and (C)leave their wealth to others.

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He will fly away like (A)a dream and not be found;
    he will be chased away like a vision of the night.
(B)The eye that saw him will see him no more,
    nor will his place any more behold him.

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10 But a man dies and is laid low;
    man breathes his last, and (A)where is he?

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21 Why do you not pardon my transgression
    and take away my iniquity?
For now I shall lie in (A)the earth;
    you will (B)seek me, (C)but I shall not be.”

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34 Then he went in and ate and drank. And he said, “See now to this cursed woman and bury her, (A)for she is a king's daughter.” 35 But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36 When they came back and told him, he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which he spoke by his servant Elijah the Tishbite: (B)‘In the territory of Jezreel the dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel, 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be (C)as dung on the face of the field in the territory of Jezreel, so that no one can say, This is Jezebel.’”

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25 Jehu said to Bidkar (A)his aide, “Take him up and throw him (B)on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how (C)the Lord made this (D)pronouncement against him:

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38 And about ten days later (A)the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

39 When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, (B)“Blessed be the Lord who has (C)avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, (D)and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. (E)The Lord has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and (F)spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.

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