Esther 1:9
Hebrew Text— Esther 1:9Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.
Morphological data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
A fool vents all of his anger, but a wise man brings himself under control.
He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
You shall say, ‘Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.’ ” For, he said, “I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me.”
I have also made a decree that whoever alters this message, let a beam be pulled out from his house, and let him be lifted up and fastened on it; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.
I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you would send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may build it.”
The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
Esther said, “If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the banquet that I have prepared for him.”
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
She opens her mouth with wisdom. Kind instruction is on her tongue.
Therefore they will now go captive with the first who go captive; and the feasting and lounging will end.
Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.