1Then Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, fled to the Lord.
22 Esd 9.38She took off the garments of her honor and put on the garments of distress and mourning, and instead of costly perfumes she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she utterly humbled her body; every part that she loved to adorn she covered with her tangled hair.
3She prayed to the Lord God of Israel and said: “O my Lord, you alone are our king; help me, who am alone and have no helper but you,
4Judg 12.3for my danger is in my hand.
5Deut 4.34; Josh 24.2, 3Ever since I was born I have heard in the tribe of my family that you, O Lord, took Israel out of all the nations and our ancestors from among all their forebears for an everlasting inheritance and that you did for them all that you said.
6Judg 2.13, 14; 2 Kings 21.11, 12And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies
7because we glorified their gods. You are righteous, O Lord!
8And now they are not satisfied that we are in bitter slavery, but they have set their hands on the hands of their idols
9Add Esth 13.17to abolish what your mouth has ordained and to destroy your inheritance, to stop the mouths of those who praise you and to quench your altar and the glory of your house,
10Jdt 3.8to open the mouths of the nations for the praise of vain idols and to magnify forever a mortal king.
11 Ps 35.8; 1 Cor 8.4 “O Lord, do not surrender your scepter to what has no being, and do not let them laugh at our downfall, but turn their plan against them and make an example of him who began this against us.
12Ps 95.3Remember, O Lord; make yourself known in this time of our affliction and give me courage, O King of the gods and Master of all dominion!
13Prov 19.12; 2 Tim 4.17Put eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion and turn his heart to hate the man who is fighting against us, so that there may be an end of him and those who agree with him.
14But save us by your hand and help me, who am alone and have no helper but you, O Lord. You have knowledge of all things,
15Add Esth 13.12and you know that I hate the splendor of the lawless and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised and of any alien.
16Isa 30.22; Add Esth 2.17You know my necessity, that I abhor the sign of my proud position that is upon my head on days when I appear in public. I abhor it like a menstrual cloth, and I do not wear it on the days when I am at rest.
17Deut 32.38; Jdt 12.2And your servant has not eaten at Haman’s table, and I have not honored the king’s feast or drunk the wine of libations.
18Your servant has had no joy since the day that I was brought here until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.
19O God, whose might is over all, hear the voice of the despairing and save us from the hands of evildoers. And save me from my fear!”
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