Esther
4:1	When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes,
	and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the
	city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
4:2	And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the
	king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
4:3	And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his
	decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and
	weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4:4	So Esther's maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was
	the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai,
	and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
4:5	Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he
	had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to
	Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.
4:6	So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was
	before the king's gate.
4:7	And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum
	of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for
	the Jews, to destroy them.
4:8	Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at
	Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto
	her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make
	supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.
4:9	And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
4:10	Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;
4:11	All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do
	know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king
	into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put
	him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden
	sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto
	the king these thirty days.
4:12	And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
4:13	Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that
	thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
4:14	For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there
	enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but
	thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether
	thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
4:15	Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,
4:16	Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast
	ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also
	and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king,
	which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
4:17	So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had
	commanded him.