Esther 8:16 Cross References - LEB

¹⁶ For the Jews, there was light and gladness, joy and honor.

¹ Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry; ² he went up to the entrance of the gate of the king, for he could not go to the gate of the king in sackcloth. ³ In every province each place where the king's edict and his law came, there was great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, and sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them.

¹⁶ "Go, gather all the Jews that are found in Susa and fast for me; do not eat or drink for three days, both night and day. I and my young girls will fast likewise, and then I will go to the king, which is not according to the law; if I perish, I perish.

¹⁷ This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. They rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day of feasting and joy.

²⁸ For you light my lamp; Yahweh, my God, lights up my darkness.

⁵ For there is a moment in his anger; there is a lifetime in his favor. Weeping lodges for the evening, but in the morning comes rejoicing. ⁶ But as for me, I had said in my prosperity, "I shall not be moved ever." ⁷ O Yahweh, by your favor you caused my strong mountain to stand. You hid your face. I was bewildered. ⁸ To you, O Yahweh, I called, and to the Lord I pleaded for grace saying, ⁹ "What gain is there in my _⌊death_⌋,* in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness? ¹⁰ "O Yahweh, hear and be gracious to me. O Yahweh, be my helper." ¹¹ You have turned my wailing into my dancing. You have removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy

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

⁴ His light rises in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious and compassionate and righteous.

¹⁸ But the path of the righteous ones is like the light of dawn, leading and shining until the day _⌊is full_⌋.* ¹⁹ The way of the wicked ones is like deep darkness; they do not know what they stumble over.

¹⁰ When good is with the righteous, the city rejoices, and with the perishing of the wicked, jubilation.

²⁹ _⌊You shall have a song_⌋* as in the night when a holy festival is kept, and a gladness of heart like one who goes with the flute, to go to the mountain of Yahweh, to the rock of Israel. ³⁰ And Yahweh will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and he will cause the descent of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and a rainstorm and stones* of hail.

¹⁰ And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing. And everlasting joy shall be on their head; joy and gladness shall overtake them, and sorrow and sighing shall flee.