O my soul, do not come into their secret council; to their assembly, my honor, do not be united: for in their anger they killed a man, and in their self will they dug down a wall.
As the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned for them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions of food one to another, and gifts to the poor.
To appoint for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.