Esther 11
Brenton's English Septuagint
1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemy and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said that he was a priest and a Levite, and Ptolemy his son, brought in the published letter of Phruræ, which they said existed, and which Lysimachus the son of Ptolemy, who was in Jerusalem, had interpreted.]
2 In the second year of the reign of Artaxerxes the great king, on the first day of Nisan, Mardochæus the son of Jairus, the son of Semeias, the son of Cisæus, of the tribe of Benjamin,
3 a Jew dwelling in the city Susa, a great man, serving in the king's palace, saw a vision.
4 Now he was of the captivity which Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon had carried captive from Jerusalem, with Jechonias the king of Judea.
5 And this was his dream: Behold, voices and a noise, thunders and earthquake, tumult upon the earth.
6 And, behold, two great serpents came forth, both ready for conflict, and there came from them a great voice,
7 and by their voice every nation was prepared for battle, even to fight against the nation of the just.
8 And, behold, a day of darkness and blackness, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great tumult upon the earth.
9 And all the righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own afflictions; and they prepared to die, and cried to God:
10 and from their cry there came as it were a great river from a little fountain, even much water.
11 And light and the sun arose, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the honourable.
12 And Mardochæus who had seen this vision and what God designed to do, having awoke, kept it in his heart, and desired by all means to interpret it, even till night.