Additions to Esther 14:5-8

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.

⁶ And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,

⁷ Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.

⁸ Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,