Esther 8:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ For the Jews there was light and gladness, joy and honor.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ The Jews had light [a dawn of new hope] and gladness and joy and honor.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ For the Jews it was a day of light, happiness, joy, and honor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ You know my necessity, that I loathe the sign of my exaltation and glory, which is on my head in the days of my exhibition, and that I detest it like a menstruous rag and do not wear it in the days of my silence,

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁶ The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.

Esther 8:16 Krydshenvisninger

Esther 4:16

“Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and neither eat nor drink for three days, night or day. I and my maids will also fast as you do. After that I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish.”

Esther 9:17

This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

Psalm 112:4

They rise in the darkness as a light for the upright; they are gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Psalm 118:27

The Lord is God, and he has given us light. Bind the festal procession with branches, up to the horns of the altar.

Psalm 18:28

It is you who light my lamp; the Lord, my God, lights up my darkness.

Psalm 30:12

so that my soul may praise you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever.

Psalm 97:11

Light dawns for the righteous and joy for the upright in heart.

Proverbs 11:10

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there is jubilation.

Proverbs 28:12

When the righteous rejoice, there is great glory, but when the wicked prevail, people go into hiding.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.