“I’m thirsty, “Please give me some water.”

"Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more."

“What should be done for the man the king delights to honour?”

“Sir, I begged you not to get my hopes up, and I didn’t even ask you for a son.”

“You will see it with your own eyes, but you will not eat any of it!”

“I would never punish all of you. Only the one who stole my cup will become my slave. The rest of you are free to go home to your father.”

“There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples...Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws; If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.”

“I was glad when they said to me, let’s go to the house of the Lord”

“Look, even if the Lord should open the floodgates of the heavens, could this happen?”

“I now put a curse on Canaan! He will be the lowest slave of his brothers.

“I thought that he would surely come out to me...wave his hand over the spot and cure me of my leprosy. Are not Abana and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?