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chapter 14
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Queen
Esther also, fearing the danger that was at hand, had recourse to the Lord.
2 And when she had laid away her royal apparel, she put
on garments suitable for weeping and mourning: instead of divers precious
ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body
with fasts: and all the places in which before she was accustomed to rejoice,
she filled with her torn hair.
3 And she prayed to the Lord the God of Israel, saying:
O my Lord, who alone art our king, help me a desolate woman, and who have no
other helper but thee.
4 My danger is in my hands.
5 I have heard of my father that thou, O Lord, didst
take Israel from among all nations, and our fathers from all their
predecessors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and thou hast done
to them as thou hast promised.
6 We have sinned in thy sight, and therefore thou hast
delivered us into the hands of our enemies:
7 For we have worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O
Lord.
8 And now they are not content to oppress us with most
hard bondage, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their
idols,
9 They design to change thy promises, and destroy thy
inheritance, and shut the mouths of them that praise thee, and extinguish the
glory of thy temple and altar,
10 That they may open the mouths of Gentiles, and
praise the strength of idols, and magnify for ever a carnal king.
11 Give not, O Lord, thy sceptre to them that are not,
lest they laugh at our ruin: but turn their counsel upon themselves, and
destroy him that hath begun to rage against us.
12 Remember, O Lord, and shew thyself to us in the time
of our tribulation, and give me boldness, O Lord, king of gods, and of all
power:
13 Give me a well ordered speech in my mouth in the
presence of the lion, and turn his heart to the hatred of our enemy, that both
he himself may perish, and the rest that consent to him.
14 But deliver us by thy hand, and help me, who have no
other helper, but thee, O Lord, who hast the knowledge of all things.
15 And thou knowest that I hate the glory of the
wicked, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of every stranger.
16 Thou knowest my necessity, that I abominate the sign
of my pride and glory, which is upon my head in the days of my public
appearance, and detest it as a menstruous rag, and wear it not in the days of
my silence,
17 And that I have not eaten at Aman's table, nor hath
the king's banquet pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of the drink
offerings:
18 And that thy handmaid hath never rejoiced, since I
was brought hither unto this day, but in thee, O Lord, the God of Abraham.
19 O God, who art mighty above all, hear the voice of
them, that have no other hope, and deliver us from the hand of the wicked, and
deliver me from my fear.
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