27 Listen to my prayer. Have mercy on your inheritance and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to your name, O Lord. Don’t utterly destroy the mouth of those who praise you, O Lord.” (WEB) 28 All Israel cried with all their might, for death was before their eyes. (WEB) 29 And queen Esther took refuge in the Lord, being taken as it were in the agony of death. (WEB)
Greek Esther 4:27–29
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