Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, ¹  they scoff at me. ² 

Folly is bound up ¹  in the heart of a child, ²  but the rod of discipline ³  will drive it far from him.

Letters were sent by the runners to all the king’s provinces stating that ¹  they should destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, from youth to elderly, both women and children, ²  on a particular day, namely the thirteenth day ³  of the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), and to loot and plunder their possessions.