Quotes About Power

So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,

Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the kingís mouth, they covered Hamanís face.

Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Hamanís house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.

That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the kingís presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.

So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Hamanís estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

Now you may write in the kingís name as you please regarding the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. For a decree that is written in the name of the king and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”

For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Hamanís ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”

Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out todayís edict, and may the bodies of Hamanís ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

And all of Mordecaiís powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

the One who does great and unsearchable things, wonders without number.

He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.

If one wished to contend with God, he could not answer Him one time out of a thousand.

He moves mountains without their knowledge and overturns them in His anger.

He shakes the earth from its place, so that its foundations tremble.

He commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.

He alone stretches out the heavens and treads on the waves of the sea.

He does great things beyond searching out, and wonders without number.

If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ëWhat are You doing?í