1 unharmed to all his family.
9And now, you who hate insolence, all-merciful and protector of all, reveal yourself quickly to those of the people of Israel who are being outrageously treated by the abominable and lawless nations.
10“Even if our lives have become entangled in impieties in our exile, rescue us from the hand of the enemy and destroy us, Lord, by whatever fate you choose.
11 at the destruction of your beloved ones, saying, ‘Not even their god rescued them.’
12But you, O Eternal One, who have all might and all power, watch over us now and have mercy on us who by the senseless insolence of the lawless are being deprived of life in the manner of traitors.
13And let the nations cower today in fear of your invincible might, O honored One, who have power to save the people of Jacob.
14The whole throng of infants and their parents entreat you with tears.
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28Release the children of the almighty and living God of heaven, who from the time of our ancestors until now has granted uninterrupted stability and glory to our government.”
29These then were the things he said, and the Jews, immediately released, praised their holy God and Savior, since they now had escaped death.
The Jews Celebrate Their Deliverance30 Putting an end to all mourning and wailing, they formed choruses as a sign of peaceful joy.
33Likewise also the king, after convening a lavish banquet to celebrate these events, gave thanks to heaven unceasingly and lavishly for the unexpected rescue that he had experienced.
34Those who had previously believed that the Jews would be destroyed and become food for birds and had joyfully registered them groaned as they themselves were overcome by disgrace and their fire-breathing boldness was ignominiously quenched.
35 and passed the time in feasting to the accompaniment of joyous thanksgiving and psalms.
36Esth 9.18; 1 Macc 4.56; 2 Macc 10.6; 15.36And when they had ordained a public rite for these things for their whole community for generations to come, they instituted the observance of the aforesaid days as a festival, not for drinking and gluttony but because of the deliverance that had come to them through God.
37Then they petitioned the king, asking for dismissal to their homes.
383 Macc 4.15So their registration was carried out from the twenty-fifth of Pachon to the fourth of Epeiph, for forty days, and their destruction was set for the fifth to the seventh of Epeiph, the three days
39on which the Lord of all most gloriously revealed his mercy and rescued them all together and unharmed.
40v 30Then they feasted, being provided with everything by the king, until the fourteenth day, on which also they made the petition for their dismissal.
41The king granted their request and wrote the following letter for them to the generals in the cities, magnanimously expressing his concern:
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