דָּמָה

It shall happen that as I thought to do to them, so I will do to you.”

The men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house by night. They intended to kill me and they raped my concubine, and she is dead.

They said to the king, “The man who consumed us, and who devised against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.

We have thought about your loving kindness, God, in the middle of your temple.

You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.

For who in the skies can be compared to Yahweh? Who among the sons of the heavenly beings is like Yahweh,

I am like a pelican of the wilderness. I have become as an owl of the waste places.

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

I have compared you, my love, to a steed in Pharaoh’s chariots.

My beloved is like a roe or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in at the windows. He glances through the lattice.

Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young deer on the mountains of Bether.

This, your stature, is like a palm tree, your breasts like its fruit.

Come away, my beloved! Be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices!

Unless Yahweh of Armies had left to us a very small remnant, we would have been as Sodom. We would have been like Gomorrah.

However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”

Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?

“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.

“To whom will you compare me, and consider my equal, and compare me, as if we were the same?

I will cut off the beautiful and delicate one, the daughter of Zion.

What shall I testify to you? What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is as big as the sea. Who can heal you?

“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?

The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it. The cypress trees were not like its boughs. The pine trees were not as its branches; nor was any tree in the garden of God like it in its beauty.

“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”

‘Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and tell him, “You were likened to a young lion of the nations; yet you are as a monster in the seas. You broke out with your rivers, and troubled the waters with your feet, and fouled their rivers.”

I have also spoken to the prophets, and I have multiplied visions; and by the ministry of the prophets I have used parables.