²² Pilate answered, `What I have written, I have written.'

¹⁴ and God Almighty give to you mercies before the man, so that he hath sent to you your other brother and Benjamin; and I, when I am bereaved -- I am bereaved.'

¹⁶ `Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that `is' not according to law, and when I have perished -- I have perished.'

⁷ Restraining the noise of seas, the noise of their billows, And the multitude of the peoples.

¹⁰ For the fierceness of man praiseth Thee, The remnant of fierceness Thou girdest on.

²⁹ In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

¹² From this `time' was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, `If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'