Est 9:22-25, Pro 11:10, Lam 2:15, Rev 18:20 | ESV | STEP | as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies , and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday ; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness , days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor .

a[See ver. 19 above]

Esther 9:22-25

22 as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into ^aa holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

23 So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them. 24 For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ^bthe enemy of all the Jews, ^chad plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and ^dhad cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them. 25 But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing ^ethat his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews ^fshould return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. ^{▼▼Or suspended on a stake}

Proverbs 11:10

10 ^hWhen it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices,
and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.

Lamentations 2:15

15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
ⁱthey hiss and wag their heads
at the daughter of Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
^jthe perfection of beauty,
^kthe joy of all the earth?”

Revelation of John 18:20

20 ^lRejoice over her, O heaven,
and you saints and ^mapostles and prophets,
for ⁿGod has given judgment for you against her!”