“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.”

“Is anyone up there on my side? Throw her out of the window!”

Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies.

“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.”

“With a donkey’s jawbone , I have made donkeys of them., with a donkey’s jawbone, I have killed a thousand men.”

“This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh…”

“The fire and wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

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

“Go away, baldy! Get out of here!”

“Lazy, that’s what you are—lazy! That is why you keep saying, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord.’ Now get to work. You will not be given any straw, yet you must produce your full quota of bricks.”

Now, Lord, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.”