35 because we honored their gods. You are righteous, O Lord. (WEB) 36 But now they have not been content with the bitterness of our slavery, but have laid their hands on the hands of their idols (WEB) 37 to abolish the decree of your mouth, and utterly to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to extinguish the glory of your house and your altar, (WEB)
Greek Esther 4:35–37
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Ezekiel 16:20–22
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