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his Wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the Seed of the Jews, before whom thou haft begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt furely fall before him.

14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the King's Chamberlains, and hafted to bring Haman unto the Banquet that Efther had prepared.

CHAP. VII.

1 Efther entertaining the King and Haman, maketh Suit for her own Life and her Peoples. 5 She accufeth Haman. 7 The King in his Anger understanding of the Gallows which Haman had made for Mordecai, caufeth him to be hanged thereon.

the King and Haman came to banquet with the Queen.

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2 And the King faid again to Esther, on the fecond Day, at the Banquet, What is thy Petition, Queen Efther? and it fhall be performed even to the half of the Kingdom.

3 Then the Queen anfwered and faid, If I have found Favour in thy Sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my LIFE be given me at my Petition, and my PEOPLE at my Request.

4 For we are fold, I and my People, to be destroyed, to be flain, and to perifh: but if we had been fold for Bond-men and Bond-women, I had held my Tongue, although the Enemy could not countervail the King's Damage.

5 Then the King Ahafuerus anfwered and faid unto Efther, Who is he? and where is he that durft prefume in his Heart to do fo?

6 And Efther faid, The Adverfary and Enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the King and the Queen.

7 And the King arifing from the Banquet in his Wrath, went into the Palace Garden; and Haman ftood up to make Request for his Life to the Queen: for he faw that there was Evil determined against him by the King.

8 Then the King returned out of the Palace Garden, into the Place of the Banquet of Wine; and Haman was fallen upon the Bed whereon Efther was. Then faid the King, Will he force the Queen alfo before me in the Houfe? As

the

the Word went out of the King's Mouth, they covered Haman's Face.

9 And Harbonah, one of the Chamberlains, faid before the King, Behold alfo the Gallows fifty Cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had fpoken good for the King, ftandeth in the House of Haman. Then the King faid, Hang him thereon.

10 So they hanged Haman on the Gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the King's Wrath pacified.

Pfal. ix. Is The Heathen are funk down in the Pit that they made: own Foot taken. in the Net which they hid is their

16 The LORD is known by the Judgment which he executeth: the Wicked are fnared in the Work of his own Hands.

17 The Wicked fhall be turned into Hell, and all the Nations that for

get God.

18 For the Needy fhall not alway be forgotten: the Expectation of the Poor fhall not perish for ever. prevail, let the Heathen be judged in thy Sight.

19 Arife, O LORD, let not Man

that the Nations may know them23 Put them in Fear, O LORD:

felves to be but Men.

CHAP. VIII.

Mordecai is advanced. 3 Efther maketh Suit to reverse Haman's Letters. 7 Abafuerus granteth to the Jews to defend themselves. 15 Mordecai's Honour, and the Jew's Joy.

NP that Day did

℗ Pfal. xxxvii. 1 Fret not thy felf

Ver. the King Aha- because of evil Doers, neither be ON

fuerus give the Houfe of Haman the Jew's Enemy, unto Efther the Queen: and Mordecai came before the King; for Efther had told what he was unto her.

2 And the King took off his Ring which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Efther fet Mordecai over all the House of Haman.

thou envious against the Workers of

Iniquity.

2 For they fhall foon be cut down like the Grafs, and wither as the

green Herb.

3 Truft in the LORD, and do good, fo fhalt thou dwell in the Land, and verily thou shalt be fed.

LORD; and he thall give thee the 4 Delight thy felf alfo in the Defires of thine Heart.

truft alfo in him, and he shall bring s Commit thy Way unto the LORD; it to pafs.

6 And he fhall bring forth thy Righteoufnefs as the Light, and thy Judgment as the Noon Day.

7 Reft in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thy felf because of him who profpereth in his Way, because of the Man who bringeth wicked Devices to pass.

8 Cease from Anger, and forfake Wrath: fret not thy felf in any wise to do Evil.

9 For evil Doers fhall be cut off, but thofe that wait upon the LORD, shall inherit the Earth.

To For yet a little while, and the Wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently confider his Place, and it fhall not be

II But the Meek fhall inherit the Earth: and shall delight themselves in the Abundance of Peace.

12 The Wicked plotteth against the Juft, and gnasheth upon him with his Teeth.

13 The LORD fhall laugh at him, for he feeth that his Day is coming. 14 The Wicked have drawn out the Sword, and have bent their Bow to caft down the Poor and Needy, and to flay fuch as be of upright Converfation.

Is Their Sword fhall enter into their own Heart, and their Bow fhall be broken.

16 A little that a Righteous Man hath, is better than the Riches of many Wicked.

17 For the Arms of the Wicked shall be broken: but the LORD upholdeth the Righteous.

18 The LORD knoweth the Days of the Upright, and their Inheritance fhall be for ever.

19 They fhall not be afhamed in the evil Time, and in the Days of Famine they fhall be fatisfied.

21 But the Wicked shall perish, and the Enemies of the LORD fhall be aş the Fat of Lambs, they shall consume; into Smoke shall they consume away.

22 For fuch as be bleffed of him, fhall inherit the Earth; and they that be curfed of him, fhall be cut off:

23 The Steps of a good Man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his Way.

24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly caft down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his Hand.

25 I have been young, and now am old: yet have I not feen the Righteous forfaken, nor his Seed begging Bread.

27 Depart from Evil, and do Good: and dwell for evermore.

28 For the LORD loveth Judgment, and forfaketh not his Saints, they are preferved for ever: but the Seed of the Wicked fhall be cut off.

32 The Wicked watcheth the Righteous, and leeketh to flay him.

33 The LORD will not leave him in his Hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

34 Wait on the LORD, and keep his Way, and he fhall exalt thee to inherit the Land: When the Wicked are cut off, thou shalt fee it.

35 I have seen the Wicked in great Power: and spreading himself like a green Bay-tree.

36 Yet he paffed away, and lo, he was not: yea, I fought him, but he could not be found

37 Mark the perfe&t Man, and behold the Upright: for the End of that Man is Peace.

38 But the Tranfgreffors fhall be deftroyed together, the End of the Wicked fhall be cut off.

39 But the Salvation of the Righteous is of the LORD, he is their Strength in Time of Trouble.

Pfal. x. 13 Wherefore doth the

40 And the LORD fhall help and deliver them: he fhall deliver them from the Wicked, and fave them because they trust in him. 3 And Efther fpake yet again before the King, and wicked contemn God? he hath said fell down at his Feet, and in his Heart, Thou wilt not require it. befought him with Tears, to holdeft Mifchief and Spite to requite 14 Thou haft feen it, for thou beput away the Mifchief of Ha-it with thy Hand: the Poor com

man

man the Agagite, and his Device that he had devifed against the Jews.

4 Then the King held out the golden Sceptre towards Efther. So Efther arose, and ftood before the King,

5 And faid, If it please the King, if I have found Favour in his Sight, and the Thing feem right before the King, and I be pleafing in his Eyes,

mitteth himself unto thee, thou art the Helper of the Fatherlefs.

15 Break thou the Arm of the Wicked, and the evil Man: seek out

his Wickedness 'till thou find none.

ever: the Heathen are punished out of the Land.

16 The LORD is King for ever and

1 LORD, thou haft heard the Defire of the Humble: thou wilt prepare their Heart, thou wilt caufe thine Ear to hear.

oppreffed, that the Man of the Earth may no more opprefs.

18 To judge the fatherless and the

let it be written to reverse the Letters devised by Haman, which he wrote to deftroy the Jews which are in all the King's Provinces.

6 For how can I endure to fee the Evil that fhall come unto my People? or how can I endure to fee the Deftrution of my Kindred?

7 Then the King faid unto the Queen,and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Efther the House of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the Gallows, because he laid his Hand upon the Jews. 8 Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the King's Name, and feal it with the King's Ring: for the Writing which is written in the King's Name, and fealed with the King's Ring, may no Man reverse.

9 Then were the King's Scribes called in the third Month, and it was written (according to all that Mordecai commanded) unto the Jews, and to the Lieutenants, and the Deputies, and Rulers of the Provinces, which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred and

Г Pfal. xci. 1 He that dwelleth in

the fecret Place of the moft High,

fhall abide under the Shadow of the

Almighty.

2 I will fay of the LORD, He is GOD in him will I truft. my Refuge, and my Fortrefs, my

3 Surely he fhall deliver thee from the Snare of the Fowler: and from the noisom Peftilence.

the Terror by Night: nor for the Arrow that flieth by Day.

s Thou shalt not be afraid for

6 Nor for the Peftilence that walketh in Darkness: nor for the

Deftruction that wafteth at noon
Day.

Side, and Ten Thousand at thy right
A Thousand fhall fall at thy
Hand: but it fhall not come nigh
thee.

behold, and fee the Reward of the
Wicked.

8 Only with thine Eyes fhall thou

9 Because thou haft made the moft High, thy Habitation: LORD which is my Refuge, even the

15 He fhall call upon me, and I will anfwer him: I will be with him

honour him.
in Trouble, I will deliver him, and

16 With long Life will I fatisfy him, and fhew him my Salvation.

twenty

twenty feven Provinces, and unto every People after their Language, and to the Jews according to their Writing, and according to their Language.

10 And he wrote in the King Ahafuerus Name, and fealed it with the King's Ring, and fent Letters by Poft on Horfeback, and Riders on Mules, Camels, and young Dromedaries:

11 Wherein the King granted the Jews, which were in every City, to gather themselves together, and to ftand for their Life, to destroy, to flay, and to caufe to perish all the Power of the People and Province, that would affault them, both little ones, and Women, and to take the Spoil for a Prey.

12 Upon one Day, in all the Provinces of King Ahafuerus, namely upon the thirteenth Day of the twelfth Month, which is the Month Adar.

13 The Copy of the Writing, for a Commandment to be given in every Province, was published unto all People, and that the Jews fhould be ready against that Day, to avenge themselves on their Enemies.

14 So the Posts went out, being haftned, and pressed on by the King's Commandment; and the Decree was given at Shufhan the Palace.

15 And Mordecai went out from the Prefence of the King, in Royal Apparel of blew and white, and with a great Crown of Gold, and with a Garment of fine Linen, and Purple; and the City of Shufhan rejoiced and was glad: 16 The Jews had Light and Gladness, and Joy, and Honour.

17 And in every Province, and in every City, whitherfoever the King's Commandment and his Decree came, the Jews had Joy and Gladnefs, a Feaft and a good Day: and MANY of the PEOPLE of the LAND became JEWS; for the FEAR of the JEWS fell upon THEM.

Pfal. xl. I waited patiently for the LORD, and he inclined unto me, and heard my Cry.

horrible Pit, out of the miry Clay, 2 He brought me up alfo out of an and fet my Feet upon a Rock, and eftablished my Goings.

3 And he hath put a new Song in my Mouth, even Praife unto our GOD: many fhall fee it, and fear, and truft in the LORD.

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