I am a son of eighty years today. Can I distinguish between good and evil? Can your servant taste that which I am eating, and that which I drink? Can I any more listen to the voice of singing men and singing women? And why should your servant be any more as a burden to my lord the king?
and the food of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the standing of his ministers, and their clothing, and his cupbearers, and his burnt offering that he offered in the house of Jehovah; and there was no more breath in her.
to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, in order to cause the people and the rulers to see her beauty. For she was beautiful to look upon.
in the third year of his reign, he made a banquet for all his rulers and his servants. The power of Persia and Media, the nobles and the rulers of the provinces, were before him,
And it happened on the third day that Esther put on royal clothing and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, before the king’s inner house. And the king was sitting on his royal throne in the royal house, in front of the entrance of the house.
And Mordecai went out from before the king in apparel of the kingdom, of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple. And the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
For He put on righteousness like body armor, and a helmet of salvation on His head. And He put on robes of vengeance as clothing; and He put on zeal like a mantle.
And John’s messengers going away, He began to speak to the crowds about John: What did you go out to the deserted place to see? A reed being shaken by the wind?