רָאָה

Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.

When Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed Yahweh and his people Israel.

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,

“Behold, I will gather you to your fathers, and you will be gathered to your grave in peace. Your eyes won’t see all the evil that I will bring on this place and on its inhabitants.” ’ ” They brought back word to the king.

But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ households, the old men who had seen the first house, when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, wept with a loud voice. Many also shouted aloud for joy,

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

I looked, and rose up, and said to the nobles, to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, “Don’t be afraid of them! Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses.”

In those days I saw some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath in Judah, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

In those days I also saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab;

He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown, to show the people and the princes her beauty; for she was beautiful.

and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.

He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

When the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, she obtained favor in his sight; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. So Esther came near, and touched the top of the scepter.

Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

Let the stars of its twilight be dark. Let it look for light, but have none, neither let it see the eyelids of the morning,

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have not seen you.’

Behold, he goes by me, and I don’t see him. He passes on also, but I don’t perceive him.

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

“ ‘Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? I wish I had given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.

For he knows false men. He sees iniquity also, even though he doesn’t consider it.

“Behold, my eye has seen all this. My ear has heard and understood it.

whom I, even I, will see on my side. My eyes will see, and not as a stranger. “My heart is consumed within me.

yet he will perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him will say, ‘Where is he?’