§4.2aκαὶ εἶπεν Κύριε, κύριε βασιλεῦ πάντων κρατῶν, ὅτι ἐν ἐξουσίᾳ σου τὸ πᾶν ἐστιν, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἀντιδοξῶν σοι ἐν τῷ θέλειν σε σῶσαι τὸν Ἰσραήλ·
And he said, "Lord, Lord, King who rules over all, for all things are in your power, and there is no one who can oppose you when you wish to save Israel.
§4.3aὅτι σὺ ἐποίησας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ πᾶν θαυμαζόμενον ἐν τῇ ὑπʼ οὐρανόν, §4.4aκαὶ κύριος εἶ πάντων, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἀντιτάξεταί σοι τῷ κυρίῳ·
For you made heaven and earth and every wonderful thing under heaven, and you are Lord of all, and there is no one who can oppose you, the Lord.
§4.5aσὺ πάντα γινώσκεις, σὺ οἶδας, Κύριε, ὅτι οὐκ ἐν ὕβρει οὐδὲ ἐν ὑπερηφανίᾳ οὐδὲ ἐν φιλοδοξίᾳ ἐποίησα τοῦτο, τὸ μὴ προσκυνεῖν τὸν ὑπερήφανον Ἀμάν.
You know all things; you know, Lord, that it was not in insolence or pride or love of glory that I did this, in refusing to bow down to the proud Haman.
§4.6aὅτι ηὐδόκουν φιλεῖν πέλματα ποδῶν αὐτοῦ πρὸς σωτηρίαν Ἰσραήλ,
For I would have been content to kiss the soles of his feet for the salvation of Israel.
§4.7aἀλλὰ ἐποίησα τοῦτο ἵνα μὴ θῶ δόξαν ἀνθρώπου ὑπεράνω δόξης θεοῦ· καὶ οὐ προσκυνήσω οὐδένα πλὴν σοῦ τοῦ κυρίου μου, καὶ οὐ ποιήσω αὐτὰ ἐν ὑπερηφανίᾳ.
But I did this so that I might not place the glory of man above the glory of God; and I will bow down to no one except you, my Lord, and I will not do these things in pride.
§4.8aκαὶ νῦν, Κύριε ὁ θεὸς ὁ βασιλεὺς ὁ θεὸς Ἀβραάμ, φεῖσαι τοῦ λαοῦ σου, ὅτι ἐπιβλέπουσιν ἡμῖν εἰς καταφθορὰν καὶ ἐπεθύμησαν ἀπολέσαι τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς κληρονομίαν σου·
And now, Lord God, King, God of Abraham, spare your people, for they are looking upon us to destroy us, and they have desired to ruin your inheritance from the beginning.
§4.9aμὴ ὑπερίδῃς τὴν μερίδα σου ἣν σεαυτῷ ἐλυτρώσω ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου·
Do not overlook your portion, which you redeemed for yourself out of the land of Egypt.
§4.10aἐπάκουσον τῆς δεήσεως μου καὶ ἱλάσθητι τῷ κλήρῳ σου, καὶ στρέψον τὸ πένθος ἡμῶν εἰς εὐωχίαν, ἵνα ζῶντες ὑμνῶμέν σου τὸ ὄνομα, Κὐριε, καὶ μὴ ἀφανίσῃς στόμα αἰνούντων σοι. §4.1a1καὶ πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ ἐκέκραξαν ἐξ ἰσχύος αὐτῶν, ὅτι θάνατος αὐτῶν ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτόῶν.
Hear my prayer and be merciful to your inheritance, and turn our mourning into feasting, so that we may live to sing praises to your name, Lord, and do not destroy the mouth of those who praise you." And all Israel cried out with all their might, for their death was before their eyes.
§4.12aΚαὶ Ἐσθὴρ ἡ βασίλισσα κατέφυγεν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον ἐν ἀγῶνι θανάτου κατειλημμένη,
And Queen Esther fled to the Lord, seized by a deadly agony.
§4.13aκαὶ ἀφελομένη τὰ ἱμάτια τῆς δόξης αὐτῆς ἐνεδύσατο ἱμάτια στενοχαορίας καὶ πένθους, καὶ ἀντὶ τῶν ὑπερηφάνων ἡδυσμάτων σποδοῦ καὶ κοπριῶν ἔπλησεν τὴν κεφαλήν· καὶ τὸ σῶμα ἐταπείνωσεν σφόδρα, καὶ πάντα τόπον κόσμου ἀγαλλιάματος αὐτῆς ἔπλησε στρεπτῶν τριχῶν αὐτῆς·
And taking off her glorious garments, she put on garments of distress and mourning, and instead of proud perfumes, she covered her head with ashes and dung; and she humbled her body exceedingly, and every place of her joyful adornment she filled with her tangled hair.
§4.14aκαὶ ἐδεῖτο Κυρίου θεοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ εἶπεν Κύριέ μου, ὁ βασιλεὺς ἡμῶν, σὺ εἶ μόνος· βοήθησόν μοι τῇ μόνῃ καὶ μὴ ἐχούσῃ βοηθὸν εἰ μὴ σέ. §4.15aὅτι κἰνδυνός μου ἐν χερί μου.
And she prayed to the Lord God of Israel, saying, "My Lord, our King, you alone are God; help me, who am desolate and have no helper but you, for my danger is in my hand.
§4.16aἐγὼ δκουον ἐκ γενετῆς μου ἐν φυλῇ πατριᾶς μου, ὅτι σύ, Κύριε, ἔλαβες τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ τοὺς πατέρας ἡμῶν ἐκ πάντων τῶν προγόνων αὐτῶν εἰς κληρονομίαν αἰώνιον, καὶ ἐποί ησας αὐτοῖς ὅσα ἐλάλησας.
I have heard from my birth in my ancestral tribe that you, Lord, took Israel out of all the nations, and our fathers from all their progenitors, for an everlasting inheritance, and did for them all that you spoke.
§4.17aκαὶ νῦν ἡμάρτομεν ἐνώπιόν σου, καὶ παρέδωκας ἡμᾶς εἰς χεῖρας τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἡμῶν· §4.18aἀνθʼ ὧν ἐδοξάσαμεν τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτῶν.
And now we have sinned before you, and you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies, because we glorified their gods.
δίκαιος εἶ, Κύριε·
You are righteous, Lord.
§4.19aκαὶ νῦν οὐχ ἱκανώθησαν ἐν πικρασμῷ δουλείας ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ ἔθηκαν τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, §4.20aἐξᾶραι ὁρισμὸν στόματός σου καὶ ἀφανίσαι κληρονομίαν σου, καὶ ἐμφράξαι στόμα αἰνούντων σοι καὶ σβέσαι δόξαν οἴκου σου καὶ θυσιαστήριόν σου, §4.21aκαὶ ἀνοῖξαι στόμα ἐθνῶν εἰς ἀρετὰς ματαίων καὶ θαυμασθῆναι βασιλέα σάρκινον εἰς αἰῶνα.
And now they are not satisfied with the bitterness of our slavery, but they have laid their hands, to abolish the decree of your mouth, and to destroy your inheritance, and to stop the mouth of those who praise you, and to quench the glory of your house and your altar, and to open the mouth of the nations to the virtues of vain things, and to wonder at a fleshly king forever.
§4.22aμὴ παραδῷς, Κύριε, τὸ σκῆπτρόν σου τοῖς μὴ οὖσιν, καὶ μὴ καταγελασάτωσαν ἐν τῇ πτώσει ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ στρέψον τὴν βουλὴν αὐτῶν ἐπʼ αὐτούς· τὸν δὲ ἀρξάμενον ἐφʼ ἡμᾶς παραδιγμάτισον.
Do not deliver up your sceptre, Lord, to those that are nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall, but turn their counsel against themselves, and make an example of the one who began this against us."