Lexicon :: Strong's G1380 - dokeō

So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to marry his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city! ” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

“Tell the Israelites to take an offering for me. You are to take my offering from everyone who is willing to give.

Everyone whose heart was moved and whose spirit prompted him came and brought an offering to the LORD for the work on the tent of meeting, for all its services, and for the holy garments.

And all the women whose hearts were moved spun the goat hair by virtue of their skill.

“Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever you think is right.”

“If it meets the king’s approval, he should personally issue a royal decree. Let it be recorded in the laws of the Persians and the Medes, so that it cannot be revoked: Vashti is not to enter King Ahasuerus’s presence, and her royal position is to be given to another woman who is more worthy than she.

“If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to[fn] the officials for deposit in the royal treasury.”

“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for them.”

She said, “If it pleases the king and I have found favor with him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

“Write in the king’s name whatever pleases you concerning the Jews, and seal it with the royal signet ring. A document written in the king’s name and sealed with the royal signet ring cannot be revoked.”

saying:

Naked I came from my mother’s womb,

and naked I will leave this life.[fn]

The LORD gives, and the LORD takes away.

Blessed be the name of the LORD.

Dreadful sounds fill his ears;

when he is at peace, a robber attacks him.

he will vanish forever like his own dung.

Those who know[fn] him will ask, “Where is he? ”

At the height of his success[fn] distress will come to him;

the full weight of misery[fn] will crush him.

For wisdom will enter your heart,

and knowledge will delight you.

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

There is a way that seems right to a person,

but its end is the way to death.

Even a fool is considered wise when he keeps silent ​—

discerning, when he seals his lips.

Do you see a person who is wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him.

If one blesses his neighbor

with a loud voice early in the morning,

it will be counted as a curse to him.

The one who robs his father or mother

and says, “That’s no sin,”

is a companion to a person who destroys.

On that day the Branch[fn] of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the pride and glory of Israel’s survivors.

“This word is by decree of the watchers,

and the decision is by command from the holy ones.

This is so that the living will know

that the Most High is ruler

over human kingdoms.

He gives them to anyone he wants

and sets the lowliest of people over them.

“You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals. You will feed on grass like cattle and be drenched with dew from the sky for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms, and he gives them to anyone he wants.

“You will be driven away from people to live with the wild animals, and you will feed on grass like cattle for seven periods of time, until you acknowledge that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms, and he gives them to anyone he wants.”

“He was driven away from people, his mind was like an animal’s, he lived with the wild donkeys, he was fed grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with dew from the sky until he acknowledged that the Most High God is ruler over human kingdoms and sets anyone he wants over them.