Indeed, I have received a command ¹  to bless; he has blessed, ²  and I cannot reverse it. ³ 

From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; ¹  I will act, and who can prevent it?”

Yet in days to come I will reverse Ammon’s ill fortune.” ¹  says the Lord. ² 

“Yet in days to come I will reverse Elam’s ill fortune.” ¹  says the Lord. ² 

The earth will become desolate ¹  because of what its inhabitants have done. ² 

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

So the last will be first, and the first last.”

But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Yet in days to come I will reverse Moab’s ill fortune.” ¹  says the Lord. ²  The judgment against Moab ends here.

She said, “If the king is so inclined and if I have met with his approval and if the matter is agreeable to the king and if I am attractive to him, let an edict be written rescinding those recorded intentions of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, ¹  which he wrote in order to destroy the Jews who are throughout all the king’s provinces.

But if that nation I threatened stops doing wrong, ¹  I will cancel the destruction ²  I intended to do to it.

I will restore Judah and Israel ¹  and will rebuild them as they were in days of old. ² 

“Edom will become an object of horror. All who pass by it will be filled with horror; they will hiss out their scorn because of all the disasters that have happened to it. ¹ 

(4:1) ¹  For look! In those ²  days and at that time I will return the exiles ³  to Judah and Jerusalem. ⁴ 

But ¹  indeed, ²  some are last ³  who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”

Therefore if the uncircumcised man obeys ¹  the righteous requirements of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?

Look, I will make the shadow go back ten steps on the stairs of Ahaz.” ¹  And then the shadow went back ten steps. ² 

Now you write in the king’s name whatever in your opinion is appropriate concerning the Jews and seal it with the king’s signet ring. Any decree that is written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be rescinded.

and the Lord turned a very strong west wind, ¹  and it picked up the locusts and blew them into the Red Sea. ²  Not one locust remained in all the territory of Egypt.

the Lord your God will reverse your captivity and have pity on you. He will turn and gather you from all the peoples among whom he ¹  has scattered you.