Esther Plans to Intercede

15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; (A)do not eat or drink for (B)three days, night or day. I and my attendants also will fast in the same way. And then I will go in to the king, which is not in accordance with the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

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Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to (A)taunt the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for (B)the remnant that is left.’”

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(A)Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you (B)great and [a]mighty things, (C)which you do not know.’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 33:3 Or incomprehensible

37 ‘This is what the Lord God says: “This too I will let the house of Israel ask Me to do for them: I will increase their people like a flock.

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23 To You, (A)God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise,
For You have given me (B)wisdom and power;
Even now You have made known to me what we (C)requested of You,
For You have made known to us the king’s matter.”

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