Quotes About Persecution

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.

he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the kingís palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.

They open their mouths against me and strike my cheeks with contempt; they join together against me.

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys without mercy and spills my gall on the ground.

He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

His anger burns against me, and He counts me among His enemies.

His troops advance together; they construct a ramp against me and encamp around my tent.

Why do you persecute me as God does? Will you never get enough of my flesh?

If you say, ëLet us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,í

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

They have tracked us down, and now surround us; their eyes are set to cast us to the ground,

All who see me mock me; they sneer and shake their heads:

They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.

For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.

Consider my enemies, for they are many, and they hate me with vicious hatred.

Do not hand me over to the will of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.

For without cause they laid their net for me; without reason they dug a pit for my soul.

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.