Verse 16

The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 97:11 : 11 Light is sown for the righteous, And gladness for the upright in heart.
  • Prov 11:10 : 10 When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices. When the wicked perish, there is shouting.
  • Esth 4:1-3 : 1 Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; 2 and he came even before the king's gate: for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 In every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
  • Ps 30:5-9 : 5 For his anger is but for a moment; His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, But joy comes in the morning. 6 As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved." 7 You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain to stand strong. But when you hid your face, I was troubled. 8 I cried to you, Yahweh. To Yahweh I made supplication: 9 "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth? 10 Hear, Yahweh, and have mercy on me. Yahweh, be my helper." 11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,
  • Esth 4:16 : 16 Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
  • Esth 9:17 : 17 [This was done] on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
  • Ps 18:28 : 28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
  • Isa 30:29-30 : 29 You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a pipe to come to the mountain of Yahweh, to the Rock of Israel. 30 Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
  • Isa 35:10 : 10 and the ransomed of Yahweh shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
  • Ps 112:4 : 4 Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, Gracious, merciful, and righteous.
  • Prov 4:18-19 : 18 But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, That shines more and more until the perfect day. 19 The way of the wicked is like darkness. They don't know what they stumble over.