Esther 8:16 Cross References - LITV

¹⁶ For the Jews it was light and gladness and joy and honor.

¹ And Mordecai understood all that was done, and Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry. ² And he came until he was before the king's gate; for there was no entering into the king's gate in clothing of sackcloth. ³ And in every province, wherever the king's word and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping and wailing. Sackcloth and ash were spread on many.

¹⁶ Go, gather all the Jews being found in Shushan, and fast for me. And do not eat or drink three days, night or day. My maidens and I will also fast in this way. And so I will go in to the king, which is not according to the law. And if I have perished, I have perished.

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 For You will light my lamp; Jehovah my God will make my darkness light.

⁵ For His anger is only a moment; in His favor is life. Weeping may endure in the evening, but joy comes in the morning. ⁶ And in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved forever. ⁷ O Jehovah, in Your favor You have made my strong mountain to stand You hid Your face; I was troubled; ⁸ I called to You, O Jehovah; yea, I prayed to Jehovah. ⁹ What profit is in my blood, in going down to the Pit? Shall the dust praise You? Shall it tell of Your truth? ¹⁰ Hear, O Jehovah, and favor me; O Jehovah, be my helper. ¹¹ You have turned my mourning into dancing for me; You have loosed my sackcloth and have clothed me with gladness.

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

⁴ Light rises in the darkness to the upright; he is gracious and full of pity, and of righteousness.

¹⁸ But the path of the just is as a bright light going on and shining till the day is established. ¹⁹ The way of the wicked is as darkness; they do not know at what they stumble.

¹⁰ When the righteous prospers, the city rejoices; and at the wicked's perishing is singing.

²⁹ The song shall be to you, as the night when the feast is sanctified, and gladness of heart, as one going with the flute, to come into the mount of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel. ³⁰ And Jehovah shall make the majesty of His voice heard; and He shows His arm coming down with raging anger and flame of consuming fire, cloudburst and storm, and hailstones.

¹⁰ And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return and enter Zion, with singing and everlasting joy on their head; gladness and joy shall reach them; and sorrow and sighing shall flee.