Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 16:21
In 3 translations
- KJV
- For Almighty God hath turned to joy unto them the day, wherein the chosen people should have perished.
- DRC
- For the almighty God hath turned this day of sadness and mourning into joy to them.
- LXXE8:12
- Do ye therefore also, among your notable feasts, keep a distinct day with all festivity, that both now and hereafter it may be a day of deliverance to us and those who are well disposed toward the Persians, but to those that plotted against us a memorial of destruction.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br8:12
- “Καὶ ὑμεῖς οὖν ἐν ταῖς ἐπωνύμοις ὑμῶν ἑορταῖς, ἐπίσημον ἡμέραν μετὰ πάσης εὐωχίας ἄγετε, ὅπως καὶ νῦν καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα σωτήρια ᾖ ἡμῖν, καὶ τοῖς εὐνοοῦσι Πέρσαις, τοῖς δὲ ἡμῖν ἐπιβουλεύουσι, μνημόσυνον τῆς ἀπωλείας.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 8:12u in some Bibles
- 16:21 in most Bibles