as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
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The same threadPsalms 30:11
Mourning turned into dancing, sackcloth exchanged for gladness: the same reversal sung in the psalms.
“You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,”
The same threadRevelation 19:9
The marriage supper of the Lamb, the final feast of reversal to which every rescued people is invited.
“He said to me, “Write, ‘Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.’” He said to me, “These are true words of God.””
In contrast toEsther 3:13
The month appointed for destruction becomes a month of feasting and gifts to the needy.
“Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.”