Talmai — Addition A 8: The righteous nation, in fear, prepares to perish.
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Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.prologue

GREEK: καὶ ἐταράχθη δίκαιον πᾶν ἔθνος, φοβούμενοι τὰ ἑαυτῶν κακά, καὶ ἡτοιμάσθησαν ἀπολέσθαι·
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): and every righteous nation was troubled, fearing its own evils, and they prepared to perish;

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 6:5 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. The full witness text has Mordecai divide sages, students, nursing infants and hair-loosed women who 'weep and eulogize over Mordecai and over their own souls' -- the specific detail of a righteous assembly, fearing for its own life, that MT nowhere supplies, matching the plus's 'righteous nation troubled, fearing its own evils, prepared to perish'.
- [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:4 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד' matches the plus's righteous nation troubled and fearing destruction; an image with no MT counterpart.
- [Flagged] Sifrei Aggadah on Esther, Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II 1:2 (Sifrei Aggadah on Esther: Midrash Panim Acherim, Version II) — conduit: lost intermediary. Israel is figured as a dove trapped at the dovecote between the snake within and hawk without, unable to flee because Haman has written to the four winds -- a concrete trapped-and-fearing-for-its-life image matching the plus's 'righteous nation troubled, fearing its own evils, prepared to perish.'
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 8:5 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'ויצר לגוי הקטן מאד' (the small nation was greatly distressed) matches 'ἐταράχθη δίκαιον πᾶν ἔθνος...ἡτοιμάσθησαν ἀπολέσθαι' (the righteous nation troubled, prepared to perish), though ER's clause is shorter and omits the 'prepared to perish' element.