Archive · 2025
30 posts published on 30 days in September 2025, listed by the day of publication.
And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.
And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to…
And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in his sight: and the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre that was in his hand. So Esther drew near, and touched the top of the…
And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man [withal] whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and…
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother’s house:
Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the Lord.
For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.
The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.
Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.
If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction;
And that he would shew thee the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore that God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth.
I am as one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
If a man die, shall he live again? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
I also could speak as ye do: if your soul were in my soul’s stead, I could heap up words against you, and shake mine head at you.
If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children’s sake of mine own body.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.