27
Hear my prayer, and have mercy upon your inheritance; turn our mourning into feasting that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord; do not destroy the lips of those who praise you."
25
And now, O Lord God and King, God of Abraham, spare your people; for the eyes of our foes are upon us to annihilate us, and they desire to destroy the inheritance that has been yours from the beginning.
26
Do not neglect your portion, which you redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.
27
Hear my prayer, and have mercy upon your inheritance; turn our mourning into feasting that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord; do not destroy the lips of those who praise you."
28
And all Israel cried out mightily, for their death was before their eyes.
29
Then Queen Esther, seized with deadly anxiety, fled to the Lord.
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