Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after the end of her twelve months under the regulations for the women—for the days of their beauty treatment were completed as follows: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with balsam oil and the cosmetics for women—

For how can I endure to see the disaster which will happen to my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”