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feat(ef): complete offline EF readings — proper ferias, deuterocanon, Latin fallback
Finish the Extraordinary Form (1962) offline Mass readings so every day of the year resolves in both English and Polish. Temporal engine (temporal_ef.go): - Unique ferial slugs "ef-<season>-<week>-<weekday>" so penitential-season weekdays (Lent, Advent, Passiontide, Easter octave) can key their own proper Masses; green-season ferias have no entry and fall back to the preceding Sunday (the 1962 rule). - Special "ef-lent-after-ashes-<weekday>" case for the days between Ash Wednesday and Lent I, which have their own propers. Lectionary (tridentine-lectionary.ini, 55 -> 143 entries) via genlect.go: - Generator now fetches proper-season weekdays and stores a feria only when its Mass differs from the preceding Sunday's. - cleanCite() normalises two missalemeum data glitches: a stray comma between book and chapter ("4 Kings, 5:1" -> "4 Kings 5:1") and a period-as-separator ("John 20. 19-31" -> "John 20:19-31"), both guarded so legitimate multi-chapter citations are untouched. Citations & corpora: - books.ini: Douay abbreviations in the [en] dialect (Ex, Ezech, Jonas, and 3/4 Kings -> canonical 1/2 Kings), so the EF Lenten epistles resolve while the display keeps modern sigla. - drb.tsv: +205 rows backfilling the deuterocanonical Daniel 13-14 (Susanna, Bel) and Esther 11-16 (Greek additions) from get.bible douayrheims, which the base corpus omitted; scripts/gen-deutero.py documents the fetch. Rendering (liturgy.go): - readingLine() falls back to the Latin Vulgate (complete) when the vernacular corpus lacks a passage, with a clear note. Covers the Polish Wujek deuterocanon gap (no clean public-domain source exists) and any future vernacular gap; faithful to the EF as a Latin rite. Result: 730/730 days resolve for both EN (native) and PL (native + Latin fallback for 3 deuterocanon days). Version 0.32.0 -> 0.33.0.
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-rw-r--r--internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv205
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index 5d8f633..bcf4e2d 100644
--- a/internal/bible/books.ini
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
[en]
Genesis = Gen, Genesis
-Exodus = Exod, Exodus
+Exodus = Exod, Ex, Exodus
Leviticus = Lev, Leviticus
Numbers = Num, Numbers
Deuteronomy = Deut, Deuteronomy
@@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ Judges = Judg, Judges
Ruth = Ru, Ruth
1 Samuel = 1 Sam, 1 Samuel
2 Samuel = 2 Sam, 2 Samuel
-1 Kings = 1 Kgs, 1 Kings
-2 Kings = 2 Kgs, 2 Kings
+1 Kings = 1 Kgs, 1 Kings, 3 Kings, 3 Kgs
+2 Kings = 2 Kgs, 2 Kings, 4 Kings, 4 Kgs
1 Chronicles = 1 Chr, 1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles = 2 Chr, 2 Chronicles
Ezra = Ezra, Ezra
@@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ Isaiah = Isa, Isaiah
Jeremiah = Jer, Jeremiah
Lamentations = Lam, Lamentations
Baruch = Bar, Baruch
-Ezekiel = Ezek, Ezekiel
+Ezekiel = Ezek, Ezech, Ezekiel
Daniel = Dan, Daniel
Hosea = Hos, Hosea
Joel = Jl, Joel
Amos = Am, Amos
Obadiah = Obad, Obadiah
-Jonah = Jon, Jonah
+Jonah = Jon, Jonas, Jonah
Micah = Mic, Micah
Nahum = Nah, Nahum
Habakkuk = Hab, Habakkuk
diff --git a/internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv b/internal/bible/corpora/drb.tsv
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@@ -35463,3 +35463,208 @@ Baruch Bar 30 6 72 Better, therefore, is the just man that hath no idols: for he
2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 38 So these things being done with relation to Nicanor, and from that time the city being possessed by the Hebrews, I also will here make an end of my narration.
2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 39 Which if I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me.
2 Maccabees 2Mac 46 15 40 For as it is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other: so if the speech be always nicely framed, it will not be grateful to the readers. But here it shall be ended.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 1 Now there was a man that dwelt in Babylon, and his name was Joakim:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 2 And he took a wife, whose name was Susanna, the daughter of Helcias, a very beautiful woman, and one that feared God.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 3 For her parents being just, had instructed their daughter according to the law of Moses.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 4 Now Joakim was very rich, and had an orchard near his house: and the Jews resorted to him, because he was the most honourable of them all.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 5 And there were two of the ancients of the people appointed judges that year, of whom the Lord said: That iniquity came out from Babylon, from the ancient judges, that seemed to govern the people.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 6 These men frequented the house of Joakim, and all that hand any matters of judgment came to them.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 7 And when the people departed away at noon, Susanna went in, and walked in her husband's orchard.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 8 And the old men saw her going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 9 And they perverted their own mind, and turned away their eyes, that they might not look unto heaven, nor remember just judgments.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 10 So they were both wounded with the love of her, yet they did not make known their grief one to the other.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 11 For they were ashamed to declare to one another their lust, being desirous to have to do with her:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 12 And they watched carefully every day to see her. And one said to the other:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 13 Let us now go home, for it is dinner time. So going out, they departed one from another.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 14 And turning back again, they came both to the same place: and asking one another the cause, they acknowledged their lust: and then they agreed together upon a time, when they might find her alone.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 15 And it fell out, as they watched a fit day, she went in on a time, as yesterday and the day before, with two maids only, and was desirous to wash herself in the orchard: for it was hot weather.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 16 And there was nobody there, but the two old men that had hid themselves, and were beholding her.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 17 So she said to the maids: Bring me oil, and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard, that I may wash me.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 18 And they did as she bade them: and they shut the doors of the orchard, and went out by a back door to fetch what she had commanded them, and they knew not that the elders were hid within.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 19 Now when the maids were gone forth, the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 20 Behold the doors of the orchard are shut, and nobody seeth us, and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 21 But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee, and therefore thou didst send away thy maids from thee.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 22 Susanna sighed, and said: I am straitened on every side: for if I do this thing, it is death to me: and if I do it not, I shall not escape your hands.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 23 But it is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 24 With that Susanna cried out with a loud voice: and the elders also cried out against her.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 25 And one of them ran to the door of the orchard, and opened it.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 26 So when the servants of the house heard the cry in the orchard, they rushed in by the back door, to see what was the matter.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 27 But after the old men had spoken, the servants were greatly ashamed: for never had there been any such word said of Susanna. And on the next day,
+Daniel Dan 27 13 28 When the people were come to Joakim, her husband, the two elders also came full of wicked device against Susanna, to put her to death.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 29 And they said before the people: Send to Susanna, daughter of Helcias, the wife of Joakim. And presently they sent.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 30 And she came with her parents, and children and all her kindred.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 31 Now Susanna was exceeding delicate, and beautiful to behold.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 32 But those wicked men commanded that her face should be uncovered, (for she was covered) that so at least they might be satisfied with her beauty.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 33 Therefore her friends, and all her acquaintance wept.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 34 But the two elders rising up in the midst of the people, laid their hands upon her head.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 35 And she weeping, looked up to heaven, for her heart had confidence in the Lord.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 36 And the elders said: As we walked in the orchard alone, this woman came in with two maids, and shut the doors of the orchard, and sent away the maids from her.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 37 Then a young man that was there hid came to her, and lay with her.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 38 But we that were in a corner of the orchard, seeing this wickedness, ran up to them, and we saw them lie together.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 39 And him indeed we could not take, because he was stronger than us, and opening the doors, he leaped out:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 40 But having taken this woman, we asked who the young man was, but she would not tell us: of this thing we are witnesses.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 41 The multitude believed them, as being the elders, and the judges of the people, and they condemned her to death.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 42 Then Susanna cried out with a loud voice, and said: O eternal God, who knowest hidden things, who knowest all things before they come to pass,
+Daniel Dan 27 13 43 Thou knowest that they have borne false witness against me: and behold I must die, whereas I have done none of these things, which these men have maliciously forged against me.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 44 And the Lord heard her voice.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 45 And when she was led to be put to death, the Lord raised up the holy spirit of a young boy, whose name was Daniel:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 46 And he cried out with a loud voice: I am clear from the blood of this woman.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 47 Then all the people turning themselves towards him, said: What meaneth this word that thou hast spoken?
+Daniel Dan 27 13 48 But he standing in the midst of them, said: Are ye so foolish, ye children of Israel, that without examination or knowledge of the truth, you have condemned a daughter of Israel?
+Daniel Dan 27 13 49 Return to judgment, for they have borne false witness against her.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 50 So all the people turned again in haste, and the old men said to him: Come, and sit thou down among us, and shew it us: seeing God hath given thee the honour of old age.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 51 And Daniel said to the people: Separate these two far from one another, and I will examine them.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 52 So when they were put asunder one from the other, he called one of them, and said to him: O thou that art grown old in evil days, now are thy sins come out, which thou hast committed before:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 53 In judging unjust judgments, oppressing the innocent, and letting the guilty to go free, whereas the Lord saith: The innocent and the just thou shalt not kill.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 54 Now then if thou sawest her, tell me under what tree thou sawest them conversing together: He said: Under a mastic tree.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 55 And Daniel said: Well hast thou lied against thy own head: for behold the angel of God having received the sentence of him, shall cut thee in two.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 56 And having put him aside, he commanded that the other should come, and he said to him: O thou seed of Chanaan, and not of Juda, beauty hath deceived thee, and lust hath perverted thy heart:
+Daniel Dan 27 13 57 Thus did you do to the daughters of Israel, and they for fear conversed with you: but a daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 58 Now, therefore, tell me, under what tree didst thou take them conversing together. And he answered: Under a holm tree.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 59 And Daniel said to him: Well hast thou also lied against thy own head: for the angel of the Lord waiteth with a sword to cut thee in two, and to destroy you.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 60 With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice, and they blessed God, who saveth them that trust in him.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 61 And they rose up against the two elders, (for Daniel had convicted them of false witness by their own mouth) and they did to them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbour,
+Daniel Dan 27 13 62 To fulfil the law of Moses: and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 63 But Helcias, and his wife, praised God, for their daughter, Susanna, with Joakim, her husband, and all her kindred, because there was no dishonesty found in her.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 64 And Daniel became great in the sight of the people from that day, and thence forward.
+Daniel Dan 27 13 65 And king Astyages was gathered to his fathers; and Cyrus, the Persian, received his kingdom.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 1 And Daniel was the king's guest, and was honoured above all his friends.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 2 Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel: and there was spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour, and forty sheep, and six vessels of wine.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 3 The king also worshipped him, and went every day to adore him: but Daniel adored his God. And the king said to him: Why dost thou not adore Bel?
+Daniel Dan 27 14 4 And he answered, and said to him: Because I do not worship idols made with hands, but the living God, that created heaven and earth, and hath power over all flesh.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 5 And the king said to him: Doth not Bel seem to thee to be a living god? Seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day?
+Daniel Dan 27 14 6 Then Daniel smiled, and said: O king, be not deceived: for this is but clay within, and brass without, neither hath he eaten at any time.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 7 And the king being angry, called for his priests, and said to them: If you tell me not who it is that eateth up these expenses, you shall die.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 8 But if you can shew that Bel eateth these things, Daniel shall die, because he hath blasphemed against Bel. And Daniel said to the king: Be it done according to thy word.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 9 Now the priests of Bel were seventy, beside their wives, and little ones, and children. And the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 10 And the priests of Bel said: Behold, we go out: and do thou, O king, set on the meats, and make ready the wine, and shut the door fast, and seal it with thy own ring:
+Daniel Dan 27 14 11 And when thou comest in the morning, if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all, we will suffer death, or else Daniel, that hath lied against us.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 12 And they little regarded it, because they had made under the table a secret entrance, and they always came in by it, and consumed those things.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 13 So it came to pass after they were gone out, the king set the meats before Bel: and Daniel commanded his servants, and they brought ashes, and he sifted them all over the temple before the king: and going forth, they shut the door, and having sealed it with the king's ring, they departed.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 14 But the priests went in by night, according to their custom, with their wives, and their children: and they eat and drank up all.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 15 And the king arose early in the morning, and Daniel with him.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 16 And the king said: Are the seals whole, Daniel? And he answered: They are whole, O king.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 17 And as soon as he had opened the door, the king looked upon the table, and cried out with a loud voice: Great art thou, O Bel, and there is not any deceit with thee.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 18 And Daniel laughed: and he held the king, that he should not go in: and he said: Behold the pavement, mark whose footsteps these are.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 19 And the king said: I see the footsteps of men, and women, and children. And the king was angry.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 20 Then he took the priests, and their wives, and their children: and they shewed him the private doors by which they came in, and consumed the things that were on the table.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 21 The king, therefore, put them to death, and delivered Bel into the power of Daniel: who destroyed him and his temple.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 22 And there was a great dragon in that place, and the Babylonians worshipped him.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 23 And the king said to Daniel: Behold, thou canst not say now, that this is not a living god: adore him, therefore.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 24 And Daniel said: I adore the Lord, my God: for he is the living God: but that is no living god.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 25 But give me leave, O king, and I will kill this dragon without sword or club. And the king said, I give thee leave.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 26 Then Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them together: and he made lumps, and put them into the dragon's mouth, and the dragon burst asunder. And he said: Behold him whom you worship.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 27 And when the Babylonians had heard this, they took great indignation: and being gathered together against the king, they said: The king is become a Jew. He hath destroyed Bel, he hath killed the dragon, and he hath put the priests to death.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 28 And they came to the king, and said: Deliver us Daniel, or else we will destroy thee and thy house.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 29 And the king saw that they pressed upon him violently: and being constrained by necessity: he delivered Daniel to them.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 30 And they cast him into the den of lions, and he was there six days.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 31 And in the den there were seven lions, and they had given to them two carcasses every day, and two sheep: but then they were not given unto them, that they might devour Daniel.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 32 Now there was in Judea a prophet called Habacuc, and he had boiled pottage, and had broken bread in a bowl: and was going into the field, to carry it to the reapers.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 33 And the angel of the Lord said to Habacuc: Carry the dinner which thou hast into Babylon, to Daniel, who is in the lions' den.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 34 And Habacuc said: Lord, I never saw Babylon, nor do I know the den.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 35 And the angel of the Lord took him by the top of his head, and carried him by the hair of his head, and set him in Babylon, over the den, in the force of his spirit.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 36 And Habacuc cried, saying: O Daniel, thou servant of God, take the dinner that God hath sent thee.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 37 And Daniel said, Thou hast remembered me, O God, and thou hast not forsaken them that love thee.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 38 And Daniel arose, and ate. And the angel of the Lord presently set Habacuc again in his own place.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 39 And upon the seventh day the king came to bewail Daniel: and he came to the den, and looked in, and behold Daniel was sitting in the midst of the lions.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 40 And the king cried out with a loud voice, saying: Great art thou, O Lord, the God of Daniel. And he drew him out of the lions' den.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 41 But those that had been the cause of his destruction, he cast into the den, and they were devoured in a moment before him.
+Daniel Dan 27 14 42 Then the king said: Let all the inhabitants of the whole earth fear the God of Daniel: for he is the Saviour, working signs, and wonders in the earth: who hath delivered Daniel out of the lions' den.
+Esther Est 17 11 1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest, and of the Levitical race, and Ptolemy his son brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy had interpreted in Jerusalem.
+Esther Est 17 11 2 In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan, Mardochai the son of Jair, the son of Semei, the son of Cis, of the tribe of Benjamin:
+Esther Est 17 11 3 A Jew who dwelt in the city of Susan, a great man and among the first of the king's court, had a dream.
+Esther Est 17 11 4 Now he was of the number of the captives, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried away from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Juda:
+Esther Est 17 11 5 And this was his dream: Behold there were voices, and tumults, and thunders, and earthquakes, and a disturbance upon the earth.
+Esther Est 17 11 6 And behold two great dragons came forth ready to fight one against another.
+Esther Est 17 11 7 And at their cry all nations were stirred up to fight against the nation of the just.
+Esther Est 17 11 8 And that was a day of darkness and danger, of tribulation and distress, and great fear upon the earth.
+Esther Est 17 11 9 And the nation of the just was troubled fearing their own evils, and was prepared for death.
+Esther Est 17 11 10 And they cried to God: and as they were crying, a little fountain grew into a very great river, and abounded into many waters.
+Esther Est 17 11 11 The light and the sun rose up, and the humble were exalted, and they devoured the glorious.
+Esther Est 17 11 12 And when Mardochai had seen this, and arose out of his bed, he was thinking what God would do: and he kept it fixed in his mind, desirous to know what the dream should signify.
+Esther Est 17 12 1 And he abode at that time in the king's court with Bagatha and Thara the king's eunuchs, who were porters of the palace.
+Esther Est 17 12 2 And when he understood their designs, and had diligently searched into their projects, he learned that they went about to lay violent hands on king Artaxerxes, and he told the king thereof.
+Esther Est 17 12 3 Then the king had them both examined, and after they had confessed, commanded them to be put to death.
+Esther Est 17 12 4 But the king made a record of what was done: and Mardochai also committed the memory of the thing to writing.
+Esther Est 17 12 5 And the king commanded him, to abide in the court of the palace, and gave him presents for the information.
+Esther Est 17 12 6 But Aman the son of Amadathi the Bugite was in great honour with the king, and sought to hurt Mardochai and his people, because of the two eunuchs of the king who were put to death.
+Esther Est 17 13 1 And this was the copy of the letter: Artaxerxes the great king who reigneth from India to Ethiopia, to the princes and governors of the hundred and twenty-seven provinces, that are subject to his empire, greeting.
+Esther Est 17 13 2 Whereas I reigned over many nations, and had brought all the world under my dominion, I was not willing to abuse the greatness of my power, but to govern my subjects with clemency and that they might live quietly without any terror, and might enjoy peace, which is desired by all men,
+Esther Est 17 13 3 But when I asked my counsellors how this might be accomplished, one that excelled the rest in wisdom and fidelity, and was second after the king, Aman by name,
+Esther Est 17 13 4 Told me that there was a people scattered through the whole world, which used new laws, and acted against the customs of all nations, despised the commandments of kings, and violated by their opposition the concord of all nations.
+Esther Est 17 13 5 Wherefore having learned this, and seeing one nation in opposition to all mankind using perverse laws, and going against our commandments, and disturbing the peace and concord of the provinces subject to us,
+Esther Est 17 13 6 We have commanded that all whom Aman shall mark out, who is chief over all the provinces, and second after the king, and whom we honour as a father, shall be utterly destroyed by their enemies, with their wives and children, and that none shall have pity on them, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:
+Esther Est 17 13 7 That these wicked men going down to hell in one day, may restore to our empire the peace which they had disturbed.
+Esther Est 17 13 8 But Mardochai besought the Lord, remembering all his works,
+Esther Est 17 13 9 And said: O Lord, Lord, almighty king, for all things are in thy power, and there is none that can resist thy will, if thou determine to save Israel.
+Esther Est 17 13 10 Thou hast made heaven and earth and all things that are under the cope of heaven.
+Esther Est 17 13 11 Thou art Lord of all, and there is none that can resist thy majesty.
+Esther Est 17 13 12 Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest that it was not out of pride and or any desire of glory, that I refused to worship the proud Aman,
+Esther Est 17 13 13 (For I would willingly and readily for the salvation of Israel have kissed even the steps of his feet,)
+Esther Est 17 13 14 But I feared lest I should transfer the honour of my God to a man, and lest I should adore any one except my God.
+Esther Est 17 13 15 And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance.
+Esther Est 17 13 16 Despise not thy portion, which thou hast redeemed for thyself out of Egypt.
+Esther Est 17 13 17 Hear my supplication, and be merciful to thy lot and inheritance, and turn our mourning into joy, that we may live and praise thy name, O Lord, and shut not the mouths of them that sing to thee.
+Esther Est 17 13 18 And all Israel with like mind and supplication cried to the Lord, because they saw certain death hanging over their heads.
+Esther Est 17 14 1 Queen Esther also, fearing the danger that was at hand, had recourse to the Lord.
+Esther Est 17 14 2 And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put on garments suitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body with fasts: and all the places in which before she was accustomed to rejoice, she filled with her torn hair.
+Esther Est 17 14 3 And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying: O my Lord, who alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no other helper but thee.
+Esther Est 17 14 4 My danger is in my hands.
+Esther Est 17 14 5 I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done to them as thou hast promised.
+Esther Est 17 14 6 We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast delivered us into the hands of our enemies:
+Esther Est 17 14 7 For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord.
+Esther Est 17 14 8 And now they are not content to oppress us with most hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols,
+Esther Est 17 14 9 They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the glory of thy temple and altar,
+Esther Est 17 14 10 That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.
+Esther Est 17 14 11 Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not, lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and destroy him that hath begun to rage against us.
+Esther Est 17 14 12 Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time of our tribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all power:
+Esther Est 17 14 13 Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the presence of the lion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both he himself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.
+Esther Est 17 14 14 But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no other helper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.
+Esther Est 17 14 15 And thou knowest that I hate the glory of the wicked, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
+Esther Est 17 14 16 Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign of my pride and glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public appearance, and detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of my silence,
+Esther Est 17 14 17 And that I have not eaten at Aman's table, nor hath the king's banquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink offerings:
+Esther Est 17 14 18 And that thy handmaid hath never rejoiced, since I was brought hither unto this day but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.
+Esther Est 17 14 19 O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of them, that have no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and deliver me from my fear.
+Esther Est 17 15 1 And he commanded her (no doubt but he was Mardochai) to go to the king, and petition for her people, and for her country.
+Esther Est 17 15 2 Remember, (said he,) the days of thy low estate, how thou wast brought up by my hand, because Aman the second after the king hath spoken against us unto death.
+Esther Est 17 15 3 And do thou call upon the Lord, and speak to the king for us, and deliver us from death.
+Esther Est 17 15 4 And on the third day she laid away the garments she wore, and put on her glorious apparel.
+Esther Est 17 15 5 And glittering in royal robes, after she had called upon God the ruler and Saviour of all, she took two maids with her,
+Esther Est 17 15 6 And upon one of them she leaned, as if for delicateness and overmuch tenderness she were not able to bear up her own body.
+Esther Est 17 15 7 And the other maid followed her lady, bearing up her train flowing on the ground.
+Esther Est 17 15 8 But she with a rosy colour in her face, and with gracious and bright eyes hid a mind full of anguish, and exceeding great fear.
+Esther Est 17 15 9 So going in she passed through all doors in order, and stood before the king, where he sat upon his royal throne, clothed with his royal robes, and glittering with gold, and precious stones, and he was terrible to behold.
+Esther Est 17 15 10 And when he had lifted up his countenance, and with burning eyes had shewn the wrath of his heart, the queen sunk down, and her colour turned pale, and she rested her weary head upon her handmaid.
+Esther Est 17 15 11 And God changed the king's spirit into mildness, and all in haste and in fear he leaped from his throne, and holding her up in his arms, till she came to herself, caressed her with these words:
+Esther Est 17 15 12 What is the matter, Esther? I am thy brother, fear not.
+Esther Est 17 15 13 Thou shalt not die: for this law is not made for thee, but for all others.
+Esther Est 17 15 14 Come near then, and touch the sceptre.
+Esther Est 17 15 15 And as she held her peace, he took the golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck, and kissed her, and said: Why dost thou not speak to me?
+Esther Est 17 15 16 She answered: I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.
+Esther Est 17 15 17 For thou, my lord, art very admirable, and thy face is full of graces.
+Esther Est 17 15 18 And while she was speaking, she fell down again, and was almost in a swoon.
+Esther Est 17 15 19 But the king was troubled, and all his servants comforted her.
+Esther Est 17 16 1 The great king Artaxerxes, from India to Ethiopia, to the governors and princes of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, which obey our command, sendeth greeting.
+Esther Est 17 16 2 Many have abused unto pride the goodness of princes, and the honour that hath been bestowed upon them:
+Esther Est 17 16 3 And not only endeavour to oppress the king's subjects, but not bearing the glory that is given them, take in hand, to practise also against them that gave it.
+Esther Est 17 16 4 Neither are they content not to return thanks for benefits received, and to violate in themselves the laws of humanity, but they think they can also escape the justice of God who seeth all things.
+Esther Est 17 16 5 And they break out into so great madness, as to endeavour to undermine by lies such as observe diligently the offices committed to them, and do all things in such manner as to be worthy of all men's praise,
+Esther Est 17 16 6 While with crafty fraud they deceive the ears of princes that are well meaning, and judge of others by their own nature.
+Esther Est 17 16 7 Now this is proved both from ancient histories, and by the things which are done daily, how the good designs of kings are depraved by the evil suggestions of certain men.
+Esther Est 17 16 8 Wherefore we must provide for the peace of all provinces.
+Esther Est 17 16 9 Neither must you think, if we command different things, that it cometh of the levity of our mind, but that we give sentence according to the quality and necessity of times, as the profit of the commonwealth requireth.
+Esther Est 17 16 10 Now that you may more plainly understand what we say, Aman the son of Amadathi, a Macedonian both in mind and country, and having nothing of the Persian blood, but with his cruelty staining our goodness, was received being a stranger by us:
+Esther Est 17 16 11 And found our humanity so great towards him, that he was called our father, and was worshipped by all as the next man after the king:
+Esther Est 17 16 12 But he was so far puffed up with arrogancy, as to go about to deprive us of our kingdom and life.
+Esther Est 17 16 13 For with certain new and unheard of devices he hath sought the destruction of Mardochai, by whose fidelity and good services our life was saved, and of Esther the partner of our kingdom with all their nation:
+Esther Est 17 16 14 Thinking that after they were slain, he might work treason against us left alone without friends, and might transfer the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.
+Esther Est 17 16 15 But we have found that the Jews, who were by that most wicked man appointed to be slain, are in no fault at all, but contrariwise, use just laws,
+Esther Est 17 16 16 And are the children of the highest and the greatest, and the ever living God, by whose benefit the kingdom was given both to our fathers and to us, and is kept unto this day.
+Esther Est 17 16 17 Wherefore know ye that those letters which he sent in our name, are void and of no effect.
+Esther Est 17 16 18 For which crime both he himself that devised it, and all his kindred hang on gibbets, before the gates of this city Susan: not we, but God repaying him as he deserved.
+Esther Est 17 16 19 But this edict, which we now send, shall be published in all cities, that the Jews may freely follow their own laws.
+Esther Est 17 16 20 And you shall aid them that they may kill those who had prepared themselves to kill them, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is called Adar.
+Esther Est 17 16 21 For the almighty God hath turned this day of sadness and mourning into joy to them.
+Esther Est 17 16 22 Wherefore you shall also count this day among other festival days, and celebrate it with all joy, that it may be known also in times to come,
+Esther Est 17 16 23 That all they who faithfully obey the Persians, receive a worthy reward for their fidelity: but they that are traitors to their kingdom, are destroyed for their wickedness.
+Esther Est 17 16 24 And let every province and city, that will not be partaker of this solemnity, perish by the sword and by fire, and be destroyed in such manner as to be made unpassable, both to men and beasts, for an example of contempt, and disobedience.