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AddEsth 13:13 For I could have been content with good will for the salvation of Israel to kiss the soles of his feet.
AddEsth 13:14 But I did this, that I might not prefer the glory of man above the glory of God: neither will I worship any but thee, O God, neither will I do it in pride.
AddEsth 13:15 And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people: for their eyes are upon us to bring us to nought; yea, they desire to destroy the inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.
AddEsth 13:16 Despise not the portion, which thou hast delivered out of Egypt for thine own self.
AddEsth 13:17 Hear my prayer, and be merciful unto thine inheritance: turn our sorrow into joy, that we may live, O Lord, and praise thy name: and destroy not the mouths of them that praise thee, O Lord.
AddEsth 13:18 All Israel in like manner cried most earnestly unto the Lord, because their death was before their eyes.
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.
AddEsth 14:3 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:
AddEsth 14:4 For my danger is in mine hand.
AddEsth 14:5 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.
AddEsth 14:6 And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,
AddEsth 14:7 Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.
AddEsth 14:8 Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,
AddEsth 14:9 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,
AddEsth 14:10 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.
AddEsth 14:12 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:
AddEsth 14:14 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.
AddEsth 14:17 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.
AddEsth 14:18 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.
AddEsth 15:1 And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel.
AddEsth 15:2 And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with her:
AddEsth 15:3 And upon the one she leaned, as carrying herself daintily;
AddEsth 15:4 And the other followed, bearing up her train.
AddEsth 15:5 And she was ruddy through the perfection of her beauty, and her countenance was cheerful and very amiable: but her heart was in anguish for fear.
AddEsth 15:6 Then having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king, who sat upon his royal throne, and was clothed with all his robes of majesty, all glittering with gold and precious stones; and he was very dreadful.
AddEsth 15:7 Then lifting up his countenance that shone with majesty, he looked very fiercely upon her: and the queen fell down, and was pale, and fainted, and bowed herself upon the head of the maid that went before her.
AddEsth 15:8 Then God changed the spirit of the king into mildness, who in a fear leaped from his throne, and took her in his arms, till she came to herself again, and comforted her with loving words and said unto her,
AddEsth 15:9 Esther, what is the matter? I am thy brother, be of good cheer:
AddEsth 15:10 Thou shalt not die, though our our commandment be general: come near.
AddEsth 15:11 And so be held up his golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck,
AddEsth 15:12 And embraced her, and said, Speak unto me.
AddEsth 15:13 Then said she unto him, I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.
AddEsth 15:14 For wonderful art thou, lord, and thy countenance is full of grace.
AddEsth 15:15 And as she was speaking, she fell down for faintness.
AddEsth 15:16 Then the king was troubled, and ail his servants comforted her.
AddEsth 16:1 The great king Artexerxes unto the princes and governors of an hundred and seven and twenty provinces from India unto Ethiopia, and unto all our faithful subjects, greeting.
AddEsth 16:2 Many, the more often they are honoured with the great bounty of their gracious princes, the more proud they are waxen,
AddEsth 16:3 And endeavour to hurt not our subjects only, but not being able to bear abundance, do take in hand to practise also against those that do them good:
AddEsth 16:4 And take not only thankfulness away from among men, but also lifted up with the glorious words of lewd persons, that were never good, they think to escape the justice of God, that seeth all things and hateth evil.
AddEsth 16:5 Oftentimes also fair speech of those, that are put in trust to manage their friends' affairs, hath caused many that are in authority to be partakers of innocent blood, and hath enwrapped them in remediless calamities:
AddEsth 16:6 Beguiling with the falsehood and deceit of their lewd disposition the innocency and goodness of princes.
AddEsth 16:7 Now ye may see this, as we have declared, not so much by ancient histories, as ye may, if ye search what hath been wickedly done of late through the pestilent behaviour of them that are unworthily placed in authority.
AddEsth 16:8 And we must take care for the time to come, that our kingdom may be quiet and peaceable for all men,
AddEsth 16:9 Both by changing our purposes, and always judging things that are evident with more equal proceeding.
AddEsth 16:10 For Aman, a Macedonian, the son of Amadatha, being indeed a stranger from the Persian blood, and far distant from our goodness, and as a stranger received of us,
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