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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.
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Despise not the portion, which thou hast delivered out of Egypt for thine own self.
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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.
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All Israel in like manner cried most earnestly unto the Lord, because their death was before their eyes.
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Queen Esther also, being in fear of death, resorted unto the Lord:
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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.
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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:
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For my danger is in mine hand.
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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.
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And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,
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Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.