He added, ¹  “I have something to say to you.” She replied, “Speak.”

Then Esther replied to Hathach with instructions for Mordecai:

Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:

Esther responded, ¹  “My request and my petition is this:

For you have said, ‘My teaching ¹  is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’

“Zion said, ‘The Lord has abandoned me, the sovereign master ¹  has forgotten me.’

So the Tekoan woman went ¹  to the king. She bowed down with her face to the ground in deference to him and said, “Please help me, ²  O king!”

When he approached her, the woman asked, “Are you Joab?” He replied, “I am.” She said to him, “Listen to the words of your servant.” He said, “Go ahead. I’m listening.”

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat ¹  of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;

Leah said, “How fortunate!” ¹  So she named him Gad. ² 

She became pregnant ¹  and gave birth to a son. Then she said, “God has taken away my shame.” ² 

“Then you told your servants, ‘Bring him down to me so I can see ¹  him.’ ² 

Ruth replied to Naomi, ¹  “I will do everything you have told ²  me ³  to do.” ⁴ 

She said, “The glory has departed from Israel, because the ark of God has been captured.”

The woman conceived and then sent word to David saying, “I’m pregnant.”

She said, “Allow Abishag the Shunammite to be given to your brother Adonijah as a wife.”

When Jehu came through the gate, she said, “Is everything all right, Zimri, murderer of his master?” ¹ 

When people are brought low ¹  and you say ‘Lift them up!’ ²  then he will save the downcast; ³ 

You make mankind return ¹  to the dust, ²  and say, “Return, O people!”

So she grabbed him and kissed him, and with a bold expression ¹  she said to him,