Esther 9:22 
Context| NET © | as the time when the Jews gave themselves rest from their enemies – the month when their trouble was turned to happiness and their mourning to a holiday. These were to be days of banqueting, happiness, sending gifts to one another, and providing for the poor. |
| NIV © | as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into a day of celebration. He wrote to them to observe the days as days of feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor. |
| NASB © | because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor. |
| NLT © | He told them to celebrate these days with feasting and gladness and by giving gifts to each other and to the poor. This would commemorate a time when the Jews gained relief from their enemies, when their sorrow was turned into gladness and their mourning into joy. |
| MSG © | as the occasion when Jews got relief from their enemies, the month in which their sorrow turned to joy, mourning somersaulted into a holiday for parties and fun and laughter, the sending and receiving of presents and of giving gifts to the poor. |
| BBE © | As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from sorrow to joy, and from weeping to a good day: and that they were to keep them as days of feasting and joy, of sending offerings to one another and good things to the poor. |
| NRSV © | as the days on which the Jews gained relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor. |
| NKJV © | as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor. |
| KJV | As the days <03117> wherein the Jews <03064> and the month <02320> unto them from sorrow <03015> to joy <08057>_, and from mourning <060> into a good <02896> day <03117>_: them days <03117> of feasting <04960> and joy <08057>_, and of sending <04916> portions <04490> one <0376> to another <07453>_, and gifts <04979> to the poor <034>_. |
| NASB © | because on those days <03117> the Jews <03064> rid <05117> themselves <05117> of their enemies <0340> , and it was a month <02320> which <0834> was turned <02015> for them from sorrow <03015> into gladness <08057> and from mourning <060> into a holiday <02896> them days <03117> of feasting <04960> and rejoicing <08057> and sending <04916> portions <04490> of food to one <0376> another <07453> and gifts <04979> to the poor .<034> |
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| NET © [draft] ITL | as the time <03117> when <0834> the Jews <03064> gave themselves rest <05117> from their enemies <0341> – the month <02320> when <0834> their <01992> trouble <03015> was turned <02015> to happiness <08057> and their mourning <060> to a holiday <02896> <03117> . These were to be <06213> days <03117> of banqueting <04960> , happiness <08057> , sending <04916> gifts <04490> to one <0376> another <07453> , and providing <04979> for the poor .<034> |
| NET © | as the time when the Jews gave themselves rest from their enemies – the month when their trouble was turned to happiness and their mourning to a holiday. These were to be days of banqueting, happiness, sending gifts to one another, and providing for the poor. |
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