Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XIIII.
Esther prayeth in humilitie of spirite, that God wil deliuer the people from
the crueltie of Aman.
1 Esther also the queene fled to our Lord, fearing the
peril that was at hand.
2 And when she had laid of her
royal garmentes, she tooke clothes meete for weeping and
mourning, and for diuers oyntmentes, filled her head with
ashes and dung, and her bodie she humbled with fastes: and al
the places, in which before she was accustomed to reioyse,
she filled with tearing of her heares.
3 And she besought our
Lord the God of Israel, saying: My Lord, which onlie art our
king, helpe me solitarie woman, and which haue no other
helper beside thee.
4 My peril is in my handes.
5 I haue heard
of my father that thou Lord didst take Israel out from al Gentiles,
and our fathers out of al their predecessours before, that
thou mightst possesse an euerlasting inheritance, and thou
hast done to them as thou hast spoken.
6 We haue sinned in
thy sight, and therfore thou hast deliuered vs into the handes
of our enemies:
7 for we haue worshiped their goddes. Thou
art iust ô Lord.
8 And now it suffiseth them not, that they
oppresse vs with most hard sernitude, but imputing the force
of their handes to the might of their idols,
9 they wil change
thy promisses, and destroy thine inheritance. and shut the
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mouthes of them that prayse thee, and extinguish the glorie
of thy temple and altar,
10 that they may open the mouthes of
Gentiles, and prayse the strength of idols, and magnifie a carnal
king for euer.
11 Deliuer not ô Lord thy scepter to them
note that are not, lest they laugh at our ruine: but turne their
counsel vpon them, and destroy him, that hath begune to do
cruelly against vs.
12 Remember ô Lord: and shew thy self to
vs in the time of our tribulation, and geue me confidence
Lord king of goddes, and of al power:
13 geue me speach wel
framed in my mouth in the presence of the lion, and turne his
hart into the hatred of our enemie, that both him self may
perish, and the rest that consent vnto him.
14 But deliuer vs in
thy hand, and helpe me, hauing no other helpe, but thee
ô Lord which hast the knowlege of al things,
15 and knowest
that I hate the glorie of the wicked, and note detest the bed of
the vncircumcised, and of euerie stranger.
16 Thou knowest
my necessitie, that I abhorre the signe of my pride and glorie,
which is vpon my head in the daies of my ostentation, and
detest it as the cloth of a woman in her monthlie floores, and
weare it not in the daies of my silence, note
17 and that I haue not
eaten at Amans table, neither the kings banket hath pleased
me, and that I haue not drunke the wine of libamentes:
18 and
that thy handmayde did neuer reioyse, since I was transported
hither vnto this day, but in thee ô Lord the God of Abraham.
19 O God strong aboue al, heare the voyce of them, that haue
no other hope, and deliuer vs from the hand of the wicked,
and deliuer me from my feare.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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