And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar of the LORD our God, as it is written in the law:

And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the LORD:

But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king:

In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

If they obey and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.

Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Thou wilt prolong the king's life: and his years as many generations.

Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; and thy paths drop fatness.

I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.

Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.

But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.

For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.

Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod,(when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it;

And the LORD said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.

And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add ye year to year; let them kill sacrifices.

Many days and years shall ye be troubled, ye careless women: for the vintage shall fail, the gathering shall not come.

For it is the day of the LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.