• When the new moon came the king sat down to eat his meal

    From Evelyn Davis@xknffom_ntfwjn.jgb@tdqhnpl.apph.vodka to alt.privacy.anon-server on Wed Sep 16 21:42:24 2026
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    For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars
    of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the
    lowest and the middlemost from the ground. And Mordecai told him of
    all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that
    Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to
    destroy them. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire.
    Then said the king unto her, What wilt thou, queen Esther? All the
    fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his
    branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young,
    and under his shadow dwelt all great nations. And he prepared great
    provision for them: and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them
    away, and they went to their master. Doth not the ear try words?

    Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of
    the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD's prophets by fifty
    in a cave, and fed them with bread and water? Keep thee far from a
    false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I
    will not justify the wicked. Then certain philosophers of the
    Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. Hearken unto me, O
    house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which
    are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: And
    even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry
    you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will
    deliver you. But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy
    lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil
    things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. But he
    said, Then bring meal.

    Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! In his neck
    remaineth strength, and sorrow is turned into joy before him. And
    there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very
    great company. But I have used none of these things: neither have I
    written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were
    better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying
    void. But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, they
    gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh. Thy congregation hath dwelt
    therein: thou, O God, hast prepared of thy goodness for the poor.
    Hast thou faith? Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken
    the crown of thy head.
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