Quotes About Redemption

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

So here we are today as slaves in the land You gave our fathers to enjoy its fruit and goodness—here we are as slaves!

In every province to which the kingís command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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.

The king removed the signet ring he had recovered from Haman and presented it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over the estate of Haman.

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.

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the kingís command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.

For the arrows of the Almighty have pierced me; my spirit drinks in their poison; the terrors of God are arrayed against me.

deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthlessí?

Your enemies will be clothed in shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?

If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye,

Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.

Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

My transgression would be sealed in a bag, and You would cover over my iniquity.

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

then understand that it is God who has wronged me and drawn His net around me.

Even after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God.

I will see Him for myself; my eyes will behold Him, and not as a stranger. How my heart yearns within me!

When men are brought low and you say, ëLift them up!í then He will save the lowly.