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Ask a QuestionAnxiety in the heart of man causes depression, But a good word makes it glad.
Each young woman's turn came to go in to King Ahasuerus after she had completed twelve months' preparation, according to the regulations for the women, for thus were the days of their preparation apportioned: six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with perfumes and preparations for beautifying women.
"Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and anxiety.
So Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him, and Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob."
And it was so at the end of two months that she returned to her father, and he carried out his vow with her which he had vowed. She knew no man. And it became a custom in Israel
Then she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: let me alone for two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains and bewail my virginity, my friends and I."
You observe days and months and seasons and years.
"Oh, that I were as in months past, As in the days when God watched over me;
So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
Now after those days his wife Elizabeth conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying,
They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months.
Now the ark of the LORD was in the country of the Philistines seven months.
"In that day there shall be a great mourning in Jerusalem, like the mourning at Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
"Nor shall men break bread in mourning for them, to comfort them for the dead; nor shall men give them the cup of consolation to drink for their father or their mother.
And all his sons and all his daughters arose to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted, and he said, "For I shall go down into the grave to my son in mourning." Thus his father wept for him.
Then they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they mourned there with a great and very solemn lamentation. He observed seven days of mourning for his father.
"This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
With the precious fruits of the sun, With the precious produce of the months,
At the end of the twelve months he was walking about the royal palace of Babylon.
And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.