Now it happened when they had spoken to him day after day and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s reason [for his behavior] would stand [as valid]; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Yet all of this does not satisfy me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

For how can I endure to see the tragedy that will happen to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”