Greek Esther 4:12-14

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹² When Hachratheus delivered her entire message to Mordecai, ¹³ Mordecai told him to go back and say to her, ‘Esther, do not say to yourself that you alone among all the Jews will escape alive. ¹⁴ For if you keep quiet at such a time as this, help and protection will come to the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. Yet, who knows whether it was not for such a time as this that you were made queen?’