Esther Plans to Intercede

15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; (A)do not eat or drink for (B)three days, night or day. I and my attendants also will fast in the same way. And then I will go in to the king, which is not in accordance with the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

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15 Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16 “Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast(A) for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.”(B)

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Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to (A)taunt the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for (B)the remnant that is left.’”

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It may be that the Lord your God will hear the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule(A) the living God,(B) and that he will rebuke him for the words the Lord your God has heard.(C) Therefore pray(D) for the remnant(E) that still survives.”

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(A)Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you (B)great and [a]mighty things, (C)which you do not know.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 33:3 Or incomprehensible

‘Call(A) to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable(B) things you do not know.’

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37 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock.

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37 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Once again I will yield to Israel’s plea(A) and do this for them: I will make their people as numerous as sheep,(B)

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23 To You, (A)God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise,
For You have given me (B)wisdom and power;
Even now You have made known to me what we (C)requested of You,
For You have made known to us the king’s matter.”

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23 I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors:(A)
    You have given me wisdom(B) and power,
you have made known to me what we asked of you,
    you have made known to us the dream of the king.(C)

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