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Queene Esther also being in feare of death, resorted vnto the Lord, |
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Queen Esther also, being in fear of death, resorted unto the Lord: |
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And layd away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish, & mourning: and in stead of pretious oyntments, she couered her head with ashes, & doung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her ioy she filled with her torne haire. |
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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 shee prayed vnto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lord, thou onely art our king: helpe me desolate woman, which haue no helper but thee: |
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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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For my danger is in mine hand. |
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From my youth vp I haue heard in the tribe of my family, that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessours, for a perpetuall inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoeuer thou didst promise them. |
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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 haue sinned before thee: therefore hast thou giuen vs into the hands of our enemies, |
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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 wee worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous. |
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Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous. |
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Neuertheles it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captiuitie, but they haue striken hands with their idols, |
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Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols, |
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That they will abolish the thing, that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine Altar, |
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That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar, |
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And open the mouthes of the heathen to set foorth the praises of the Idoles, and to magnifie a fleshly king for euer. |
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And open the mouths of the heathen to set forth the praises of the idols, and to magnify a fleshly king for ever. |
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O Lord, giue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall, but turne their deuice vpon themselues, and make him an example that hath begunne this against vs. |
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O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon themselves, and make him an example, that hath begun this against us. |
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Remember, O Lord, make thy selfe knowen in time of our affliction, and giue mee boldnesse, O King of the nations, and Lord of all power. |
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Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and Lord of all power. |
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Giue me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lyon: turne his heart to hate him that fighteth against vs, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are like minded to him: |
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Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn his heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him: |
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But deliuer vs with thine hand, and helpe me that am desolate, & which haue no other helper but thee. |
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But deliver us with thine hand, and help me that am desolate, and which have no other help but thee. |
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Thou knowest all things, O Lord, thou knowest that I hate the glory of the vnrighteous, and abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised, and of all the heathen. |
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Thou knowest all things, O Lord; thou knowest that I hate the glory of the unrighteous, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of all the heathen. |
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Thou knowest my necessitie: for I abhorre the signe of my high estate, which is vpon mine head, in the dayes wherein I shewe my selfe, and that I abhorre it as a menstruous ragge, and that I weare it not when I am priuate by my selfe. |
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Thou knowest my necessity: for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon mine head in the days wherein I shew myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am private by myself. |
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And that thine handmaid hath not eaten at Amans table, and that I haue not greatly esteemed the Kings feast, nor drunke the wine of the drinke offerings: |
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And that thine handmaid hath not eaten at Aman's table, and that I have not greatly esteemed the king's feast, nor drunk the wine of the drink offerings. |
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Neither had thine handmaid any ioy, since the day that I was brought hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham. |
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Neither had thine handmaid any joy since the day that I was brought hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham. |
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O thou mightie God aboue all, heare the voice of the forlorne, and deliuer vs out of the handes of the mischieuous, and deliuer me out of my feare. |
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O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver me out of my fear. |
