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1Then Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, fled to the Lord.
2She took off the garments of her honor 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.[#2 Esd 9.38]
3She prayed to the Lord God of Israel and said: “O my Lord, you alone are our king; help me, who am alone and have no helper but you,
4for my danger is in my hand.[#Judg 12.3]
5Ever since I was born I have heard in the tribe of my family that you, O Lord, took Israel out of all the nations and our ancestors from among all their forebears for an everlasting inheritance and that you did for them all that you said.[#Deut 4.34; Josh 24.2, 3]
6And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies[#Judg 2.13, 14; 2 Kings 21.11, 12]
7because we glorified their gods. You are righteous, O Lord!
8And now they are not satisfied that we are in bitter slavery, but they have set their hands on the hands of their idols
9to abolish what your mouth has ordained and to destroy your inheritance, to stop the mouths of those who praise you and to quench your altar and the glory of your house,[#Add Esth 13.17]
10to open the mouths of the nations for the praise of vain idols and to magnify forever a mortal king.[#Jdt 3.8]
11“O Lord, do not surrender your scepter to what has no being, and do not let them laugh at our downfall, but turn their plan against them and make an example of him who began this against us.[#Ps 35.8; 1 Cor 8.4]
12Remember, O Lord; make yourself known in this time of our affliction and give me courage, O King of the gods and Master of all dominion![#Ps 95.3]
13Put eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion and turn his heart to hate the man who is fighting against us, so that there may be an end of him and those who agree with him.[#Prov 19.12; 2 Tim 4.17]
14But save us by your hand and help me, who am alone and have no helper but you, O Lord. You have knowledge of all things,
15and you know that I hate the splendor of the lawless and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised and of any alien.[#Add Esth 13.12]
16You know my necessity, that I abhor the sign of my proud position that is upon my head on days when I appear in public. I abhor it like a menstrual cloth, and I do not wear it on the days when I am at rest.[#Isa 30.22; Add Esth 2.17]
17And your servant has not eaten at Haman’s table, and I have not honored the king’s feast or drunk the wine of libations.[#Deut 32.38; Jdt 12.2]
18Your servant has had no joy since the day that I was brought here until now, except in you, O Lord God of Abraham.
19O God, whose might is over all, hear the voice of the despairing and save us from the hands of evildoers. And save me from my fear!”