Verse (Click for Chapter) New Revised Standard Version to abolish what your mouth has ordained, and to destroy your inheritance, to stop the mouths of those who praise you and to quench your altar and the glory of your house, Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar, Esther 14:7For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord. Esther 14:8 And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols, Esther 14:10 That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king. Esther 14:11 Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us. Context Esther 14…8And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols, 9They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar, 10That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.… Cross References Esther 14:7 For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord. Esther 14:8 And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols, Esther 14:10 That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king. Esther 14:11 Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us. |
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