Greek Esther 4:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³ And in every province where the letter had been posted there was crying, lamentation, and great mourning among the Jews, and they put on sackcloth and ashes.^{(A) 4} When the queen’s^[a] maids and eunuchs came and told her, she was deeply troubled by what she heard had happened and sent instructions to clothe Mordecai and to remove his sackcloth, but he would not consent. ⁵ Then Esther summoned Hachratheus, the eunuch who attended her, and dispatched him to get accurate information for her from Mordecai.^[b]