World English Bible
Esther 5:13
“Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.”
Esther 5:13 in the King James Version
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.Read Esther 5:13 in the King James Version →
Verse in context — Esther 5
Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Haman also said, "Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet." This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Cross references for Esther 5:13
- Philippians 4:11-12
Not that I speak in respect to lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to...
- Job 15:20
the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
- Job 18:4
You who tear yourself in your anger, shall the earth be forsaken for you? Or shall the rock be removed out of its place?
- Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- 1 Kings 21:4-6
Ahab came into his house sullen and angry because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, "I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers." He laid himself down on his bed, and turned away his face, an...
- Esther 5:9
Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
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