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• loud rang the cry of the Assyrian camp, when the hard-pressed defenders sallied out against them, parched with thirst! (Judith 16, 13)

• So the day came when it was the turn of Esther, Abihail’s child, daughter now to his brother Mardochaeus, to be a king’s bride. For her adorning, she had no request to make; let the chamberlain Egeus, since the maidens were under his charge, deck her as he would. But oh, she was fair; she had beauty past all belief, to win men’s favour and their love. (Esther 2, 15)

• And these letters, written under the royal seal in the king’s name, were sent out by post-boys, that must carry them from province to province before the earlier decree could be executed. (Esther 8, 10)

• As each tribe, city and province received the royal letter, there was feasting and carousal and holiday; and many there were, of alien race and alien creed, that submitted themselves to Jewish rite and observance; such terror the name of Jewry struck into their hearts. (Esther 8, 17)

• thou knowest how I hate the splendours of a godless court, how unwillingly I mate with an alien lord, a lord uncircumcised. (Esther 14, 15)

• shades, like the shades of death, claim it for their own; deep gloom lie heavy on it, and wrap it all in desolation. (Job 3, 5)

• It was the hour when night visions breed disquiet, as men lie chained by sleep; (Job 4, 13)

• Lie I down to sleep, I weary to be up with the day; comes the day, I weary for the evening, comfortless until dark. (Job 7, 4)

• a land of gloomy night, where death’s shadow lies over all, and no peace haunts it, only everlasting dread. (Job 10, 22)

• all living things that breathe, all the spirits of all mankind, lie in the hollow of his hand. (Job 12, 10)

• Ah, if the dead might live again! Then I could wait willingly enough, all the time of my campaigning, till I were relieved at my post; (Job 14, 14)

• Now he is like some plant that grows✻ amid deserted streets, upon houses uninhabited that lie in ruins; (Job 15, 28)