5 From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoever thou didst promise them. (KJV) 6 And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies, (KJV) 7 Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous. (KJV)
Greek Esther 14:5–7
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