Talmai — Addition C 9: She calls on God alone, having no other helper, in mortal danger.
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Canonical: https://talmai.wrootpress.com/unit/esth-plus-04.17-09/
Source edition: H. B. Swete, The Old Testament in Greek, 19.4.1a-30a

GREEK: καὶ 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, ὅτι κίνδυνός μου ἐν χειρί μου.
ENGLISH (draft-awaiting-approval): and she besought the Lord God of Israel, and said: My Lord, our king, you alone are God; help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you, for my danger is in my own hand.

PARALLELS:
- [Flagged] Esther Rabbah 8:7 (Esther Rabbah) — conduit: medieval retranslation. 'נשארתי יתומה בלי אב ואם' / 'משולה לעניה שואלת מבית לבית' (left an orphan; like a beggar going house to house) shares the theme of Esther's utter aloneness with Addition C's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you' — a specific, non-MT elaboration of her isolation.
- [Motif] Rashi on Megillah 15b:7:1 (Rashi on Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Identifying Esther's cry with Psalm 22 ('My God, my God, why have you forsaken me') is the specific prayer of the endangered woman Addition C supplies at this exact point.
- [Flagged] Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 1056:15 (Yalkut Shimoni on Esther (Remez 1046-1061)) — conduit: lost intermediary. At the threshold Esther prays 'אלי אלי למה עזבתני' facing mortal danger with no helper, at the identical narrative beat where the plus has her cry to God alone, having no helper but him; not MT (MT has no such prayer scene).
- [Motif] Targum Sheni on Esther 4:1:4 (Targum Sheni on Esther) — conduit: Aramaic. Mordecai's speech -- no king to lean on, no prophet to seek mercy, no place to flee -- is the specific ground of total helplessness matching Addition C's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you.'
- [Flagged] Megillah 15b:7 (Bavli Megillah 9a-17a) — conduit: oral. Esther's cry 'my God, my God, why have you forsaken me' as the Shekhinah departs at the threshold matches the plus's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you' at the same narrative moment.
- [Flagged] Otzar Midrashim, Midrashim on Megilat Esther, Midrash on the Book of Esther 7 (Otzar Midrashim: Midrash on the Book of Esther) — conduit: lost intermediary. Esther, abandoned by the Shekhinah as she passes the idols, cries 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me' at the moment of approaching the king -- the same narrative position and theme of solitary abandonment as the plus's 'help me, alone as I am, having no helper but you.'
- [Flagged] Aramaic Targum to Esther 7:3 (Aramaic Targum to Esther (Targum Rishon)) — conduit: Aramaic. Esther lifting her eyes to heaven and pleading for deliverance mid-audience is a specific added gesture, not in MT, matching the plus's plea for help from one who is alone with no helper but God.