Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.

Now before this, Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, being allied unto Tobiah,

Did not your ancestors do this also, and our God brought on us all of this disaster and on this city [too]? Now you are adding fierce wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath!"

Now one of the sons of Joiada son of Eliashib the high priest was a son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. So I banished him from my sight.

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

Now he was acting as the guardian of Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, for neither her father nor her mother was alive. This young woman was very attractive and had a beautiful figure. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had raised her as if she were his own daughter.

Now when the king's commandment and commission was published, and many damsels were brought together unto the castle of Susa under the hand of Hegei, Esther was taken also unto the king's house under the hand of Hegei the keeper of the women.

Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and food, gave her seven choice maids from the king’s palace and transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem.

Now Esther had not disclosed her people or her lineage, for Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.

Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked upon her.

Now, when virgins were gathered together second time, then, Mordecai, was sitting in the gate of the king.

Esther had not revealed her family or her people [that is, her Jewish background], just as Mordecai had instructed her; for Esther did what Mordecai told her just as when she was under his care.

Now when the plot was investigated and found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the Book of the Chronicles in the king’s presence.

Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent 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;

"All the servants of the king and the people of the king's provinces know that there is only one law applicable to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court -- that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!"

For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Who knows if you haven't come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"

Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.

The king said, "Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said." Now when the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared,

Now Haman went forth that day pleased and very much encouraged. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the king's gate, and he did not rise nor tremble in his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

Now the king and Haman came to drink wine with Esther the queen.

for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king.”

Then spake King Ahasuerus, and said unto Esther the queen, - Who is he now, and where is he, whose heart is set to act thus?

Now, the king, arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine, and going into the palace garden, Haman, stood to make request for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that ruin, was determined against him, by the king.

Now when the king returned from the palace garden into the place where they were drinking wine, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen with me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

On that same day King Ahasuerus gave the estate of Haman, that adversary of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Now Mordecai had come before the king, for Esther had revealed how he was related to her.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

So now send a letter about the Jews, writing whatever seems good to you, in the king's name, and stamping it with the king's ring: for a writing signed in the king's name and stamped with the king's ring may not be changed.

Now Mordecai went out from the king's presence in purple and white royal attire, with a large golden crown and a purple linen mantle. The city of Susa shouted with joy.

Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)

And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces assembled, to defend their lives and rid themselves of their enemies, and kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

Now King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land and on the coastlands of the sea.

Now as to all the powerful and great deeds of Ahasuerus, along with an exact statement about the high position of Mordecai to which the king promoted him, these things are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia, are they not?

Now his sons were wont to go, and make a banquet, at the house of each one upon his day, - and to send and call their three sisters, to eat and to drink with them.

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.

But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Now the day came when Job's sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother's house,

and said, "Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I turn thither again. The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; now blessed be the name of the LORD."

But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,

With kings and counselors of the earth,
Who built up [now desolate] ruins for themselves;

Was I not happy? Had I not quietness? Was I not in rest? And now cometh such misery upon me!"

But now it is come upon thee, and thou faintest; it toucheth thee, and thou art troubled.

Where is now thy fear of God, thy steadfastness, thy patience, and the perfectness of thy ways?

"{Think} now, who has perished [who is] innocent? Or where [are] the upright destroyed?

Now a thing was secretly brought to me, and mine ear received a little thereof.

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?

Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.

"Now as for me, I would seek God if I were you; I would commit my case to God.

For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

The things that sometime I might not away withal, are now my meat for very sorrow.

For now ye are nothing; ye see my casting down, and are afraid.

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for it is evident unto you if I lie.

“Desist now, let there be no injustice;
Even desist, my righteousness is yet in it.

The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

If thou wouldest now resort unto God betimes, and make thy humble prayer to the Almighty;

If thou wert pure and upright; surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

Insomuch, that wherein soever thou hadst little afore, thou shouldest now have great abundance.

Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

The earth was given into the hand of the unjust one: he will cover the faces of her judges; if not now, who is it?

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

It grieveth my soul to live. Nevertheless, now will I put forth my words: I will speak out of the very heaviness of my soul,

“Your hands shaped me and formed me.
Will You now turn and destroy me?

Please remember that You formed me like clay.
Will You now return me to dust?

If they had carried me to my grave as soon as I was born, then should I be now, as though I had never been.

"Now for you, if you will prepare your heart, spread out your hands to him.

For, now, shalt thou forget, sorrow, Like waters passed away, shalt thou remember it.

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

"Hold your tongues now, and let me speak, for there is something come into my mind.

Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.

Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

“For You write bitter things against me [in Your indictment]
And make me inherit and suffer for the iniquities of my youth.

For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?

But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

Also now, behold, my witness is in heaven, and my record is on high.

Lay down now, put me in a surety with thee; who is he that will strike hands with me?

Now as for the one who testifies against his friends to take their property, even the eyes of his children will fail.

But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

And where is now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

Other men shall dwell in his house - which now is none of his - and brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Such are now the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God."

You have humiliated me ten times now,
and you mistreat me without shame.

Know now that God hath overthrown me, and hath compassed me with his net.

He is breaking me down on every side, and now it's too late for me; he has uprooted my hopes like a tree.

Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!

So that the eye which saw him before, getteth now no sight of him, and his place knoweth him no more.

From his youth his bones are full of vice; but now shall it lie down with him in the earth.

One dieth now when he is mighty and at his best, rich and in prosperity;

Now sleep they both alike in the earth, and the worms cover them.

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?”
and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”

“That evil men are [now] reserved for the day of disaster and destruction,
They will be led away on the day of [God’s] wrath?