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Listen to my appeal, and have mercy on the people who are your lot. Turn our mourning into feasting, that we might live and sing praises to your name, Lord. Don't silence the voice of those who praise you."
8
"Now, Lord God, King, God of Abraham, spare your people, because the enemy seeks our ruin. They desire to destroy what has been your possession from the beginning.
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Don't neglect your people, whom you delivered out of Egypt.
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Listen to my appeal, and have mercy on the people who are your lot. Turn our mourning into feasting, that we might live and sing praises to your name, Lord. Don't silence the voice of those who praise you."
11
And all Israel cried out with all their might, for death was staring right at them.
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Queen Esther, overcome by this contest with death, turned to the Lord for protection.