Quotes About Identity

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha.

So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.

“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ëA boy is conceived.í

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard?

If he is uprooted from his place, it will disown him, saying, ëI never saw you.í

then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.

Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?

Please remember that You molded me like clay. Would You now return me to dust?

Did You not pour me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese?

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!

But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!

Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

to whom alone the land was given when no foreigner passed among them.

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

and say to corruption, ëYou are my father,í and to the worm, ëMy mother,í or ëMy sister,í

Why are we regarded as cattle, as stupid in your sight?

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

He has stripped me of my honor and removed the crown from my head.

My guests and maidservants count me as a stranger; I am a foreigner in their sight.