Esther 4:17f

O my Lord, only Thou art our King! Rescue me who am alone, and have no helper save Thee; for my danger is at hand. From my birth have I heard in the tribe of my family that Thou, O Lord, chosest Israel from among all peoples, and our fathers from all their kind, for a perpetual inheritance, and hast brought to pass whatsoever Thou hast promised them. And now we have sinned before Thee. Hence Thou hast brought us into the hands of our enemies, because we worshipped their gods. Thou art just, O Lord! Howbeit, our bitter captivity hath not contented them; but they have pledged their hands to their idols to abolish the command of Thy mouth, and to annihilate Thine inheritance and stop the mouth of them that praise Thee, and extinguish the glory of Thy house and Thine altar, and to open the mouth of the Gentiles to proclaim the virtues of vanities, that a mortal king should be honored for ever. O Lord, pass not Thy sceptre on to them that are nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall. Rather turn their plot upon themselves, and make an example of him who hath instigated against us. Remember, O Lord! make Thyself known in the time of our tribulation, and give me courage, O King of gods, and Ruler of all power.

And now, O Lord God, the King, the God of Abraam, spare thy people, for our enemies are looking upon us to our destruction, and they have desired to destroy thine ancient inheritance.