Additions to Esther 14:11
King James VersionSource notes
“O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon themselves, and make him an example, that hath begun this against us.”
Context
8Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,
9That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar,
10And open the mouths of the heathen to set forth the praises of the idols, and to magnify a fleshly king for ever.
11O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon themselves, and make him an example, that hath begun this against us.
12Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and Lord of all power.
13Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn his heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:
14But deliver us with thine hand, and help me that am desolate, and which have no other help but thee.