Additions to Esther 14
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1QVene Esther also, being in danger of death, resorted vnto the Lord, 2And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of sighing, and mourning. In the stead of precious ointement, she scatered ashes, and dongue vpon her head: and she humbled her bodie greatly with fasting, and all the places of her ioye filled she with the heere that she plucte of. 3And she prayed vnto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lord, thou onely art our King: helpe me desolate woman, which haue no helper but thee. 4For my danger is at hand. 5From my youth vp I haue heard in the kinred of my father, that thou, ô Lord, tokest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from their predecessours for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast performed that which thou didest promise them. 6Now Lord, we haue sinned before thee: therefore hast thou giuen vs into the hands of our enemies. 7Because we worshipped their gods, ô Lord, thou art righteous. 8Neuertheles, it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captiuitie, but they haue stroken hands with their idoles, 9That thei wil abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordeined, & destroye thine inheritance, to shut vp the mouthe of them that praise thee, and to quence the glorie of thy temple, and of thine altar, 10And to open the mouthes of the heathen, that they may praise the power of the idoles, and to magnifie a fleshlie King for euer. 11O Lord, giue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing, lest thei laugh vs to scorne in our miserie: but turne their deuise vpon them selues, and make him an example, that hathe begonne the same against vs. 12Thinke vpon vs, ô Lord, and shewe thy self vnto vs in the time of our distresse, and strengthen me, ô King of gods, and Lord of all power. 13Giue me an eloquent speache in my mouth before the Lion: turne his heart to hate our enemie, to destroye him, and all suche as consent vnto him. 14But deliuer vs with thine hand, and helpe me that am solitarie, which haue no defence but onely thee. 15Thou knowest all things, ô Lord: thou knowest, that I hate the glorie of the vnrighteous, & that I abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised, and of all the heathen. 16Thou knowest my necessitie: for I hate this token of my preeminence, which I beare vpon mine head, what time as I must shewe my self, & that I abhorre it as a menstruous cloth, & that I weare it not when I am alone by my self, 17And that I thine hand maide haue not eaten at Amans table, and that I haue had no pleasure in the Kings feast, nor drunke the wine of the drinke offrings, 18And that I thine hand maide haue no ioye sence the day that I was broght hether, vntil this day, but in thee, ô Lord God of Abraham. 19O thou mightie God aboue all, heare the voyce of them, that haue none other hope, and deliuer vs out of the hand of the wicked, and deliuer me out of my feare.