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Let not the vain-minded praise their vanities at the destruction of your beloved people, saying, `Not even their god has rescued them.'
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But you, O Eternal One, who have all might and all power, watch over us now and have mercy upon us who by the senseless insolence of the lawless are being deprived of life in the manner of traitors.
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And let the Gentiles cower today in fear of your invincible might, O honored One, who have power to save the nation of Jacob.
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The whole throng of infants and their parents entreat you with tears.
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Let it be shown to all the Gentiles that you are with us, O Lord, and have not turned your face from us; but just as you have said, `Not even when they were in the land of their enemies did I neglect them,' so accomplish it, O Lord."
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Just as Eleazar was ending his prayer, the king arrived at the hippodrome with the beasts and all the arrogance of his forces.
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And when the Jews observed this they raised great cries to heaven so that even the nearby valleys resounded with them and brought an uncontrollable terror upon the army.
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Then the most glorious, almighty, and true God revealed his holy face and opened the heavenly gates, from which two glorious angels of fearful aspect descended, visible to all but the Jews.
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They opposed the forces of the enemy and filled them with confusion and terror, binding them with immovable shackles.
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Even the king began to shudder bodily, and he forgot his sullen insolence.
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The beasts turned back upon the armed forces following them and began trampling and destroying them.