And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah; and they that wait for me shall not be put to shame.\par
I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?
Therefore do the Jews of the villages, that dwell in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar {\i a day of} gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.\par