Esther 4:14-17

14For if you keep silent at this time, liberation and 1rescue will arise for the Jews from another place, and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

15Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai,

16“Go, gather all the Jews who are found in Susa, and fast for me; 2do not eat or drink for 3three 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.”

17So Mordecai went away and did just as Esther had commanded him.