Discovery Box| (0.19) | Est 2:12 |
| At the end of the twelve months that were required for the women, 1 when the turn of each young woman arrived to go to King Ahasuerus – for in this way they had to fulfill their time of cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfume and various ointments used by women – |
| (0.19) | Est 3:8 |
| Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a particular people 1 that is dispersed and spread among the inhabitants 2 throughout all the provinces of your kingdom whose laws differ from those of all other peoples. Furthermore, they do not observe the king’s laws. It is not appropriate for the king to provide a haven for them. 3 |
| (0.19) | Est 3:13 |
| 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. |
| (0.19) | Est 4:16 |
| “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I 1 will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law. 2 If I perish, I perish!” |
| (0.19) | Est 6:9 |
| Then let this clothing and this horse be given to one of the king’s noble officials. Let him 1 then clothe the man whom the king wishes to honor, and let him lead him about through the plaza of the city on the horse, calling 2 before him, ‘So shall it be done to the man whom the king wishes to honor!’” |
| (0.19) | Psa 18:1 |
| For the music director; by the Lord’s servant David, who sang 2 to the Lord the words of this song when 3 the Lord rescued him from the power 4 of all his enemies, including Saul. 5 He said: 6 “I love 7 you, Lord, my source of strength! 8 |
| (0.19) | Ecc 2:3 |
| I thought deeply 1 about the effects of 2 indulging 3 myself 4 with wine (all the while 5 my mind was guiding me 6 with wisdom) 7 and the effects of 8 behaving foolishly, 9 so that |
| (0.19) | Ecc 7:26 |
| I discovered this: 1 More bitter than death is the kind of 2 woman 3 who is like a hunter’s snare; 4 her heart is like a hunter’s net and her hands are like prison chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is captured by her. |
| (0.19) | Ecc 12:5 |
| and they are afraid of heights and the dangers 1 in the street; the almond blossoms 2 grow white, 3 and the grasshopper 4 drags itself along, 5 and the caper berry 6 shrivels up 7 – because man goes to his eternal home, 8 and the mourners go about in the streets – |
| (0.19) | Sos 3:4 |
| Scarcely 1 had I passed them by when I found my beloved! I held onto him 2 tightly and would not let him go 3 until I brought him to my mother’s house, 4 to the bedroom chamber 5 of the one who conceived me. |
| (0.19) | Isa 3:24 |
| A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, 1 a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner’s brand will replace beauty. |
| (0.19) | Isa 5:2 |
| He built a hedge around it, 1 removed its stones, and planted a vine. He built a tower in the middle of it, and constructed a winepress. He waited for it to produce edible grapes, but it produced sour ones instead. 2 |
| (0.19) | Isa 6:10 |
| Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.” 1 |
| (0.19) | Isa 30:26 |
| The light of the full moon will be like the sun’s glare and the sun’s glare will be seven times brighter, like the light of seven days, 1 when the Lord binds up his people’s fractured bones 2 and heals their severe wound. 3 |
| (0.19) | Isa 35:8 |
| A thoroughfare will be there – it will be called the Way of Holiness. 1 The unclean will not travel on it; it is reserved for those authorized to use it 2 – fools 3 will not stray into it. |
| (0.19) | Isa 40:26 |
| Look up at the sky! 1 Who created all these heavenly lights? 2 He is the one who leads out their ranks; 3 he calls them all by name. Because of his absolute power and awesome strength, not one of them is missing. |
| (0.19) | Isa 45:9 |
| One who argues with his creator is in grave danger, 1 one who is like a mere 2 shard among the other shards on the ground! The clay should not say to the potter, 3 “What in the world 4 are you doing? Your work lacks skill!” 5 |
| (0.19) | Isa 45:18 |
| For this is what the Lord says, the one who created the sky – he is the true God, 1 the one who formed the earth and made it; he established it, he did not create it without order, 2 he formed it to be inhabited – “I am the Lord, I have no peer. |
| (0.19) | Isa 47:8 |
| So now, listen to this, O one who lives so lavishly, 1 who lives securely, who says to herself, 2 ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! 3 I will never have to live as a widow; I will never lose my children.’ 4 |
| (0.19) | Isa 47:11 |
| Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. 1 Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it. 2 |
