Esther 4:13-17 ▼

13 Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, |Don't suppose that because you are in the palace, you will escape any more than the other Jewish people.

14 Indeed, if you are silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father's family will perish. Who knows but that you were brought to the kingdom for a time like this?|

15 Then Esther replied to Mordecai,

16 |Go and gather all the Jewish people who are in Susa and fast for me. Don't eat or drink for three days, night or day. Both I and my young women will also fast in the same way, and then I'll go in to the king, even though it's against the law. And if I perish, I perish.|

17 Then Mordecai left and did everything that Esther had ordered him.