The Pulpit Commentary on Esther 9:22

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy. This was the key-note of Purina, the dominant idea, to which all else was secondary and sub-ordinate—sorrow turned into joy, "mourning into dancing," utter destruction into a signal triumph.

Psalms 30:1-12. might well have been written at this time.

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