Psalm 83:1-4

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O God, Do Not Keep Silence

A Song. A Psalm of ^(A)Asaph.

83 O God, do not keep silence;
    ^(B)do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
²For behold, your enemies ^(C)make an uproar;
    those who hate you have ^(D)raised their heads.
³They lay ^(E)crafty plans against your people;
    they consult together against your ^(F)treasured ones.
⁴They say, “Come, ^(G)let us wipe them out as a nation;
    let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”

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Psalm 83:9-10

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⁹Do to them as you did to ^(A)Midian,
as to ^(B)Sisera and Jabin at ^(C)the river Kishon,
¹⁰who were destroyed at ^(D)En-dor,
who became ^(E)dung for the ground.

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Psalm 83:17-18

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¹⁷Let them be ^(A)put to shame and dismayed forever;
    let them perish in disgrace,
¹⁸that they may ^(B)know that you alone,
    ^(C)whose name is the Lord,
    are ^(D)the Most High over all the earth.

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Esther 7

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7 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. ²And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, ^(A)“What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? ^(B)Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.” ³Then Queen Esther answered, ^(C)“If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. ⁴^(D)For we have been sold, I and my people, ^(E)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.” ⁵Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared^[a] to do this?” ⁶And Esther said, ^(F)“A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Haman Is Hanged

⁷And the king arose in his wrath from the wine-drinking and went into ^(G)the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that harm was determined against him by the king. ⁸And the king returned from ^(H)the palace garden to the place where they were drinking wine, as Haman was falling on ^(I)the couch where Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the word left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman's face. ⁹Then ^(J)Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, ^(K)the gallows^[b] that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, ^(L)whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits^[c] high.” And the king said, “Hang him on that.” ¹⁰^(M)So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. ^(N)Then the wrath of the king abated.

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Footnotes

Esther 7:5 Hebrew whose heart has filled him
Esther 7:9 Or wooden beam; also verse 10 (see note on 2:23)
Esther 7:9 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters

Matthew 24:45-51

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⁴⁵“Who then is ^(A)the faithful and ^(B)wise servant,^[a] whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶^(C)Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes. ⁴⁷Truly, I say to you, ^(D)he will set him over all his possessions. ⁴⁸But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master ^(E)is delayed,’ ⁴⁹and begins to beat his fellow servants^[b] and eats and drinks with ^(F)drunkards, ⁵⁰the master of that servant will come ^(G)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know ⁵¹and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place ^(H)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.