1 Sovereigness Estĕr also, being in fear of death, came to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄,
2 and laid aside her splendid 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.
3 And she prayed to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Elohim of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “O Aḏonai, You alone are our Sovereign. Help me, an empty woman, who has no helper but You;
4 for my danger is at my hand!
5 “From my youth I have heard in the tribe of my family that You, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, took Yisra’ĕl from among all people, and our fathers from all their forefathers, for an inheritance forever, and you have performed whatever You promised them.
6 “And now we have sinned before You. Therefore You have given us into the hands of our enemies,
7 because we worshipped their mighty ones. O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, You are righteous!
8 “Nevertheless it does not satisfy them that we are in bitter captivity; but they have vowed to their idols
9 that they shall abolish that which You have established with Your mouth, and destroy Your inheritance and stop the mouth of those who praise You, and quench the esteem of Your House and of Your altar.
10 “And open the mouths of the gentiles to give the praises to their idols, and to exalt a fleshly sovereign forever.
11 “O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, do not give Your sceptre to those who are naught, and do not let them laugh at our fall; but turn their scheme upon themselves, and make an example of he who has begun this against us.
12 “Remember O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, make Yourself known in the time of our affliction, and give me boldness, O Sovereign of the nations, and Aḏon of all power.
13 “Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion; turn his heart to hate he who fights against us, that there may be an end of him and of all that are like-minded as him.
14 “But deliver us with Your hand, and help me, who is abandoned, and who has no other help but You.
15 “You know all, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄; You know that I hate the esteem of the unrighteous, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised and of all the gentiles.
16 “You know my need; for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon my head in the days in which I show myself, and that I abhor it as a menstrual cloth, and that I do not wear it when I am alone by myself,
17 and that your female servant has not eaten at Haman’s table, and that I have not greatly esteemed the sovereign’s feast, nor drunk the wine of the drink offerings.
18 Neither has Your female servant had any joy since the day that I was brought here to the present, but in You, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Elohim of Aḇraham.
19 “You O mighty Elohim above all, hear the voice of the destitute and deliver us out of the hands of the evil-doers, and deliver me from my fear.