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Old Testament Reading - Born for this time

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¹When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, crying with a loud and bitter wail. ²Then he stood outside the gate of the palace, for no one was permitted to enter in mourning clothes. ³And throughout all the provinces there was great mourning among the Jews, fasting, weeping, and despair at the king’s decree; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

⁸Mordecai also gave Hathach a copy of the king’s decree dooming all Jews, and told him to show it to Esther and to tell her what was happening and that she should go to the king to plead for her people. ⁹So Hathach returned to Esther with Mordecai’s message. ¹⁰Esther told Hathach to go back and say to Mordecai, ¹¹“All the world knows that anyone, whether man or woman, who goes into the king’s inner court without his summons is doomed to die unless the king holds out his gold scepter; and the king has not called for me to come to him in more than a month.”

¹²So Hathach gave Esther’s message to Mordecai.

¹³This was Mordecai’s reply to Esther: “Do you think you will escape there in the palace when all other Jews are killed? ¹⁴If you keep quiet at a time like this, God will deliver the Jews from some other source, but you and your relatives will die; what’s more, who can say but that God has brought you into the palace for just such a time as this?”