Esther 8:16 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

¹⁶ The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honour.

¹ Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; ² and he came even before the king's gate; for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. ³ And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

¹⁶ 'Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.'

¹⁷ on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

²⁸ (18:29) For Thou dost light my lamp; the LORD my God doth lighten my darkness.

⁵ (30:6) For His anger is but for a moment, His favour is for a life-time; weeping may tarry for the night, but joy cometh in the morning. ⁶ (30:7) Now I had said in my security: 'I shall never be moved.' ⁷ (30:8) Thou hadst established, O LORD, in Thy favour my mountain as a stronghold - Thou didst hide Thy face; I was affrighted. ⁸ (30:9) Unto Thee, O LORD, did I call, and unto the LORD I made supplication: ⁹ (30:10) 'What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise Thee? shall it declare Thy truth? ¹⁰ (30:11) Hear, O LORD, and be gracious unto me; LORD, be Thou my helper.' ¹¹ (30:12) Thou didst turn for me my mourning into dancing; Thou didst loose my sackcloth, and gird me with gladness;

¹¹ Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart.

⁴ Unto the upright He shineth as a light in the darkness, gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness; they know not at what they stumble.

¹⁰ When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; and when the wicked perish, there is joy.

²⁹ Ye shall have a song as in the night when a feast is hallowed; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with the pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. ³⁰ And the LORD will cause His glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of His arm, with furious anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a bursting of clouds, and a storm of rain, and hailstones.

¹⁰ And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.