Greek Esther 4:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

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?’ ¹⁵ Then Esther gave the messenger this answer to take back to Mordecai: ¹⁶ ‘Go and gather all the Jews who are in Susa and fast on my behalf; for three days and nights do not eat or drink, and my maids and I will also go without food. After that I will go to the king, contrary to the law, even if I must die.’