I am this day eighty years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? why then should your servant be yet a burden to my lord the king?
And the food of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house of the LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
In the third year of his reign, he made a feast for all his princes and his servants; the might of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, in front of the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, opposite the gate of the house.
And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel 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 as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was covered with zeal like a cloak.
And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak to the people concerning John, What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind?