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And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of the family of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.
In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, during the reign of Darius the Persian, the heads of the families of the Levites and priests were recorded.
The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.
As for the descendants of Levi, the family heads up to the days of Johanan son of Eliashib were recorded in the Book of the Chronicles.
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Did not your forefathers do the same things, so that our God brought all this disaster on us and on this city? And now you are rekindling His wrath against Israel by profaning the Sabbath!”
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.
Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?
Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.
The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
Both the gray-haired and the aged are on our side— men much older than your father.
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
what was declared by wise men and was not concealed from their fathers,
Because he covereth his face with his fatness, and maketh collops of fat on his flanks.
Though his face is covered with fat and his waistline bulges with flesh,
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’
They that come after him shall be astonied at his day, as they that went before were affrighted.
Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow’s ox for a pledge.
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless and take the widow’s ox in pledge.
They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
The fatherless infant is snatched from the breast; the nursing child of the poor is seized for a debt.
Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
because I rescued the poor who cried out and the fatherless who had no helper.
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;
if I have eaten my morsel alone, not sharing it with the fatherless—
(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;)
though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—
If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:
if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless because I saw that I had support in the gate,
Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
Thou hast seen it; for thou beholdest mischief and spite, to requite it with thy hand: the poor committeth himself unto thee; thou art the helper of the fatherless.
But You have regarded trouble and grief; You see to repay it by Your hand. The victim entrusts himself to You; You are the helper of the fatherless.
To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
They have closed their callous hearts; their mouths speak with arrogance.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
All the rich of the earth will feast and worship; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will fade away.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
Your sons will succeed your fathers; you will make them princes throughout the land.
This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah
He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
he will join the generation of his fathers, who will never see the light of day.
My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:
My soul is satisfied as with the richest of foods; with joyful lips my mouth will praise You.
Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.
You crown the year with Your bounty, and Your paths overflow with plenty.
I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah
A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
A father of the fatherless, and a defender of the widows, is God in His holy habitation.
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
He worked wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the region of Zoan.
The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
He will call to Me, ‘You are my Father, my God, the Rock of my salvation.’
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
In old age they will still bear fruit; healthy and green they will remain,
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
They kill the widow and the foreigner; they murder the fatherless.
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear Him.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
Their hearts are hard and callous, but I delight in Your law.
The LORD preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
For whom the LORD loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.
for the LORD disciplines the one He loves, as does a father the son in whom he delights.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.
For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.
When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My son, keep your father’s commandment, and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.
The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.
A wise son heeds his father’s discipline, but a mocker does not listen to rebuke.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
The slacker craves yet has nothing, but the soul of the diligent is fully satisfied.
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
A fool rejects his father’s discipline, but whoever heeds correction is prudent.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Better a dish of vegetables where there is love than a fattened ox with hatred.
A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother.
A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish man despises his mother.
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
The light of the eyes cheers the heart, and good news nourishes the bones.
Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.
He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.
A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.
He that wasteth his father, and chaseth away his mother, is a son that causeth shame, and bringeth reproach.
He who assaults his father or evicts his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.
Whoever curses his father or mother, his lamp will be extinguished in deepest darkness.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Do not move an ancient boundary stone which your fathers have placed.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
Do not forsake your friend or your father’s friend, and do not go to your brother’s house in the day of your calamity; better a neighbor nearby than a brother far away.
Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father.
A discerning son keeps the law, but a companion of gluttons disgraces his father.
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the LORD shall be made fat.
A greedy man stirs up strife, but he who trusts in the LORD will prosper.