The Deleted Prayer That Names God in Esther

Name: The Deleted Prayer That Names God in Esther
Uploaded: 2026-05-01T12:14:09.000Z
Duration: 14 min 2 s

@sovereignlogos·May 1, 2026

The Book of Esther in your Bible never names God. Not once across ten chapters. That was not the original. Between the seventh and tenth centuries, the Masoretes — Jewish scribes working in Tiberias seven hundred years after Christ — produced the standard Hebrew text most modern Bibles translate from. They cut from the Book of Esther every passage where the Almighty is named. The largest single deletion is in chapter four, verse seventeen: 4,209 characters where Mordecai prays, where Esther prays, where the Almighty is named twenty-four times across two prayers. The Septuagint preserved all of it. The Greek Old Testament Jesus and the apostles read. We just read the deleted prayer aloud, in full. Part 2 of "Esther Restored" — a seven-part series reading the full Book of Esther with every deleted verse put back. Zero verses skipped. ▶ Read the full restored Esther: https://sovereignlogos.com/restored-books/esther ▶ Full series playlist: [PLAYLIST_URL] ▶ Subscribe for the rest of the series: @SovereignLogos ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHAT YOU WILL HEAR • The full text of Mordecai's deleted prayer, restored from the Septuagint. The covenant invoked. The God of Abraham named. The glory of God refused to be given to a man. • The full text of Esther's deleted prayer, restored from the Septuagint. The crown rejected. The royal banquet refused. The Almighty named as her only helper. The plea that God turn the king's heart. • Why this passage was cut. Strip the prayers and you strip the theology. The Esther in your Bible can be read as a story of human cleverness and political maneuvering. The Septuagint Esther is a story of a queen on her face in sackcloth, calling herself destitute, begging the Almighty to act because she knows that without Him she will die. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE FULL RESTORED ESTHER This is Part 2 of seven. The series restores all 330+ deleted verses of Esther across six major blocks and sixty smaller cuts. Read the restored book in full at sovereignlogos.com/restored-books/esther. ▶ Part 1: Your Bible Is Missing The First Page of Esther: [PT1_URL] ▶ Part 3 (next): The Deleted Scene Where Esther Collapsed Before The King: subscribe to be notified ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ABOUT THIS CHANNEL Sovereign Logos publishes the Septuagint — the Greek Old Testament quoted by Jesus, the apostles, and the early church fathers — as the unadulterated Scripture. We publish the deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Maccabees, and more) alongside the standard Protestant canon, and we publish the broader pseudepigraphal writings the apostles cited (like 1 Enoch) so that readers can engage every text the New Testament writers engaged with. Daily Bible readings, cross-references to every verse, the full Webster's 1828 dictionary for every biblical term, and a growing body of long-form flagship videos on textual history are all free at sovereignlogos.com. Christ is King. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SOURCES AND ATTRIBUTION • LXX2012 (Septuagint in American English, public domain) — primary narration source for the deleted prayer text. • Brenton's Septuagint 1851 (public domain) — cross-reference. • King James Version 1769 Oxford (public domain) — comparison Masoretic text. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 The chapter the Masoretes cut 01:00 The problem: God is never named in Esther 05:30 The Septuagint preserves the prayer 07:30 Mordecai's prayer, read in full 11:00 Esther's prayer, read in full 15:30 Two Esthers — politicized fantasy vs covenantal deliverance 17:30 What's next in the series #BookOfEsther #Septuagint #BibleHistory #EstherRestored #Apocrypha #Deuterocanonical #ChristIsKing #ChurchFathers #Masoretic #RestoredBible #SovereignLogos