the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

You are the most handsome of the sons of men; grace is poured upon your lips; therefore God has blessed you forever.

Give ear, O Lord, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace.

for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

She will place on your head a graceful garland; she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”

a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.

Thus says the Lord: “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest,

And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whorings, and peoples with her charms.

Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

Him Whom They Have Pierced

“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.