After these things, when the king's feelings were calmer, the thought of Vashti and what she had done and the order he had made against her, came back to his mind.
So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring? Then the thought came into Haman's mind, Whom, more than myself, would the king have pleasure in honouring?
Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, Who is he and where is he who has had this evil thought in his heart?
In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,
I have done no wrong; I give no thought to what becomes of me; I have no desire for life.
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry.
But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:
In the thought of him who is in comfort there is no respect for one who is in trouble; such is the fate of those whose feet are slipping.
Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?
For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.
At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.
See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
For this cause I am in fear before him, my thoughts of him overcome me.
Without a thought that they may be crushed by the foot, and broken by the beasts of the field?
Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?
<To the chief music-maker on wind instruments. A Psalm. Of David.> Give ear to my words, O Lord; give thought to my heart-searchings.
When he makes search for blood, he has them in his memory: he is not without thought for the cry of the poor.
The evil-doer in his pride says, God will not make a search. All his thoughts are, There is no God.
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.
Up! O Lord; let your hand be lifted: give thought to the poor.
You have put to shame the thoughts of the poor, but the Lord is his support.
I will give praise to the Lord who has been my guide; knowledge comes to me from my thoughts in the night.
Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.
For their thoughts were bitter against you: they had an evil design in their minds, which they were not able to put into effect.
Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.
Put me in the scales, O Lord, so that I may be tested; let the fire make clean my thoughts and my heart.
The Lord undoes the designs of the nations; he makes the thoughts of the peoples without effect.
For he takes comfort in the thought that his sin will not be uncovered and hated.
He gives thought to evil on his bed; he takes a way which is not good; he is not a hater of evil.
My heart was burning in my breast; while I was deep in thought the fire was lighted; then I said with my tongue,
O Lord my God, great are the wonders which you have done in your thought for us; it is not possible to put them out in order before you; when I would give an account of them, their number is greater than I may say.
<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> happy is the man who gives thought to the poor; the Lord will be his saviour in the time of trouble.
Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?
O daughter, give thought and attention, and let your ear be open; no longer keep in mind your people, and your father's house;
Our thoughts were of your mercy, O God, while we were in your Temple.
From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.
Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;
God will give thought to me; he who from early times is strong will send pain and trouble on them. (Selah.) Because they are unchanged, they have no fear of God.
Every day they make wrong use of my words; all their thoughts are against me for evil.
Their only thought is to put him down from his place of honour; their delight is in deceit: blessing is in their mouths but cursing in their hearts. (Selah.)
When the memory of you comes to me on my bed, and when I give thought to you in the night-time.
Or make discovery of our secret purpose? The design is framed with care; and the inner thought of a man, and his heart, is deep.
And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.
For the ears of the Lord are open to the poor, and he takes thought for his prisoners.
Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;
I will keep God in memory, with sounds of grief; my thoughts are troubled, and my spirit is overcome. (Selah.)
My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.
The memory of my song comes back to me in the night; my thoughts are moving in my heart; my spirit is searching with care.
I will give thought to all your work, while my mind goes over your acts of power.
My soul is among the dead, like those in the underworld, to whom you give no more thought; for they are cut off from your care.
O Lord, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.
And they say, Jah will not see it, the God of Jacob will not give thought to it.
The Lord has knowledge of the thoughts of man, for they are only a breath.
Among all my troubled thoughts, your comforts are the delight of my soul.
My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.
Let my thoughts be sweet to him: I will be glad in the Lord.
Let your voice be sounding in songs and melody; let all your thoughts be of the wonder of his works.
Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea.
Because they went against the words of God, and gave no thought to the laws of the Most High:
Let the wise give thought to these things, and see the mercies of the Lord.
I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.
Rulers make evil designs against me; but your servant gives thought to your rules.
Make the way of your orders clear to me; then my thoughts will be ever on your wonders.
And so that my hands may be stretched out to you; and I will give thought to your rules.
I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.
I gave thought to my steps, and my feet were turned into the way of your unchanging word.
Let the men of pride be shamed; because they have falsely given decision against me; but I will give thought to your orders.
<MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
You have overcome all those who are wandering from your rules; for all their thoughts are false.
In the night watches I am awake, so that I may give thought to your saying.
<A song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;
If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.
You have knowledge when I am seated and when I get up, you see my thoughts from far away.
How dear are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the number of them!
My hate for them is complete; my thoughts of them are as if they were making war on me.
O God, let the secrets of my heart be uncovered, and let my wandering thoughts be tested:
I keep in mind the early days of the past, giving thought to all your acts, even to the work of your hands.
My thoughts will be of the honour and glory of your rule, and of the wonder of your works.
Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
An upright man has thought for the life of his beast, but the hearts of evil-doers are cruel.
A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.
A sharp man does everything with knowledge, but a foolish man makes clear his foolish thoughts.
The simple man has faith in every word, but the man of good sense gives thought to his footsteps.
The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.
The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.
The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.
It is a danger to a man to say without thought, It is holy, and, after taking his oaths, to be questioning if it is necessary to keep them.
The evil-doer makes his face hard, but as for the upright, he gives thought to his way.
Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.
When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
If you say, See, we had no knowledge of this: does not the tester of hearts give thought to it? and he who keeps your soul, has he no knowledge of it? and will he not give to every man the reward of his work?
Then looking at it, I gave thought: I saw, and I got teaching from it.
The upright man gives attention to the cause of the poor: the evil-doer gives no thought to it.
He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.
Say not a curse against the king, even in your thoughts; and even secretly say not a curse against the man of wealth; because a bird of the air will take the voice, and that which has wings will give news of it.
Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.
Even the ox has knowledge of its owner, and the ass of the place where its master puts its food: but Israel has no knowledge, my people give no thought to me.
And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.
Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
For the foolish man will say foolish things, having evil thoughts in his heart, working what is unclean, and talking falsely about the Lord, to keep food from him who is in need of it, and water from him whose soul is desiring it.
The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man.
He whose ways are true, and whose words are upright; he who gives no thought to the profits of false acts, whose hands have not taken rewards, who will have no part in putting men to death, and whose eyes are shut against evil;
Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?
Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hand, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hand?
Let the future be made clear to us: give us news of the past things, so that we may give thought to them; or of the things to come, so that we may see if they are true.
Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.
But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.
Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.
Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.
And you have given no thought to the Lord your Maker, by whom the heavens were stretched out, and the earth placed on its base; and you went all day in fear of the wrath of the cruel one, when he was making ready for your destruction. And where is the wrath of the cruel one?
They took away from him help and right, and who gave a thought to his fate? for he was cut off from the land of the living: he came to his death for the sin of my people.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
The upright man goes to his death, and no one gives a thought to it; and god-fearing men are taken away, and no one is troubled by it; for the upright man is taken away because of evil-doing, and goes into peace.
And of whom were you in fear, so that you were false, and did not keep me in mind, or give thought to it? Have I not been quiet, keeping myself secret, and so you were not in fear of me?
Their feet go quickly to evil, and they take delight in the death of the upright; their thoughts are thoughts of sin; wasting and destruction are in their ways.
We have gone against the Lord, and been false to him, turning away from our God, our words have been uncontrolled, and in our hearts are thoughts of deceit.
For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.
As for those who keep themselves separate, and make themselves clean in the gardens, going after one in the middle, taking pig's flesh for food, and other disgusting things, such as the mouse: their works and their thoughts will come to an end together, says the Lord.
For go over to the sea-lands of Kittim and see; send to Kedar and give deep thought to it; and see if there has ever been such a thing.
Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.
But they took no note and did not give ear, but were guided by the thoughts and the pride of their evil hearts, going back and not forward.
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
About Judah. What have you to do in my house? is it your thought that oaths and holy flesh will get you out of your trouble? will you make yourself safe in this way?
But I was like a gentle lamb taken to be put to death; I had no thought that they were designing evil against me, saying, Come and let us make trouble his food, cutting him off from the land of the living, so that there may be no more memory of his name.
But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.
They have been planted by you, they have taken root; they go on and give fruit: you are near in their mouths but far from their thoughts.
I the Lord am the searcher of the heart, the tester of the thoughts, so that I may give to every man the reward of his ways, in keeping with the fruit of his doings.
Give thought to me, O Lord, and give ear to the voice of those who put forward a cause against me.
But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
Your lovers have no more thought for you, they go after you no longer; for I have given you the wound of a hater, even cruel punishment;
At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;
In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.
The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.
So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.
This is what the Lord has said: In that day it will come about that things will come into your mind, and you will have thoughts of an evil design:
As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come.
As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was at a loss for a time, his thoughts troubling him. The king made answer and said, Belteshazzar, do not be troubled by the dream or by the sense of it. Belteshazzar, answering, said, My lord, may the dream be about your haters, and its sense about those who are against you.
Then the colour went from the king's face, and he was troubled by his thoughts; strength went from his body, and his knees were shaking.
The queen, because of the words of the king and his lords, came into the house of the feast: the queen made answer and said, O King, have life for ever; do not be troubled by your thoughts or let the colour go from your face:
Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.
And while I was giving thought to this, I saw a he-goat coming from the west over the face of all the earth without touching the earth: and the he-goat had a great horn between his eyes.
At the first word of your prayer a word went out, and I have come to give you knowledge; for you are a man dearly loved: so give thought to the word and let the vision be clear to you.
And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.
They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.
These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.
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