AddEsth 14:1
Queen Esther also, being in fear of death, resorted unto the
Lord:

AddEsth 14:2
And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments
of anguish and mourning: and instead of precious ointments, she
covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body
greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn
hair.

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And she prayed unto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my
Lord, thou only art our King: help me, desolate woman, which
have no helper but thee:

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For my danger is in mine hand.

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From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that
thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our
fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual
inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoever thou didst
promise them.

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And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given
us into the hands of our enemies,

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Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.

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Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter
captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,

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That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth
hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth
of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and
of thine altar,

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And open the mouths of the heathen to set forth the praises
of the idols, and to magnify a fleshly king for ever.

AddEsth 14:11
O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and
let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon
themselves, and make him an example, that hath begun this
against us.

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Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our
affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and
Lord of all power.

AddEsth 14:13
Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn his
heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an
end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:

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But deliver us with thine hand, and help me that am desolate,
and which have no other help but thee.

AddEsth 14:15
Thou knowest all things, O Lord; thou knowest that I hate the
glory of the unrighteous, and abhor the bed of the
uncircumcised, and of all the heathen.

AddEsth 14:16
Thou knowest my necessity: for I abhor the sign of my high
estate, which is upon mine head in the days wherein I shew
myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear
it not when I am private by myself.

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And that thine handmaid hath not eaten at Aman's table, and
that I have not greatly esteemed the king's feast, nor drunk the
wine of the drink offerings.

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Neither had thine handmaid any joy since the day that I was
brought hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord God of
Abraham.

AddEsth 14:19
O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn
and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver
me out of my fear.