Tribute to Xerxes and Mordecai
Esther 13:15
In 3 translations
- KJV
- And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people: for their eyes are upon us to bring us to nought; yea, they desire to destroy the inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.
- DRC
- And now, O Lord, O king, O God of Abraham, have mercy on thy people, because our enemies resolve to destroy us, and extinguish thy inheritance.
- LXXE4:17
- Hearken to my prayer, and be propitious to thine inheritance, and turn our mourning into gladness, that we may live and sing praise to thy name, O Lord; and do not utterly destroy the mouth of them that praise thee, O Lord.
Original-language editions
- LXX-Br4:17
- Ἐπάκουσον τῆς δεήσεώς μου, καὶ ἱλάσθητι τῷ κλήρῳ σου, καὶ στρέψον τὸ πένθος ἡμῶν εἰς εὐωχίαν, ἵνα ζῶντες ὑμνῶμέν σου τὸ ὄνομα Κύριε, καὶ μὴ ἀφανίσῃς στόμα αἰνούντων σε Κύριε.
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- 4:17h in some Bibles
- 13:15 in most Bibles