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And all Israel cried out mightily, for their death was before their eyes.
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Then Queen Esther, seized with deadly anxiety, fled to the Lord.
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She took off her splendid apparel and put on the garments of distress and mourning, and instead of costly perfumes she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she utterly humbled her body; every part that she loved to adorn she covered with her tangled hair.
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She prayed to the Lord God of Israel, and said: "O my Lord, you only are our king; help me, who am alone and have no helper but you,
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for my danger is in my hand.