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12 I will be merciful to you by making him kind, so he will let you stay here in your land.’

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When people’s lives please the Lord,
    even their enemies are at peace with them.

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45 He remembered his covenant with them
    and relented because of his unfailing love.
46 He even caused their captors
    to treat them with kindness.

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11 O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.[a] Put it into his heart to be kind to me.”

In those days I was the king’s cup-bearer.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 Hebrew today in the sight of this man.

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