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And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

He maketh my feet like hinds' feet: and setteth me upon my high places.

When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

To whom will ye liken me, and make me equal, and compare me, that we may be like?

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;