Esther 4:16
4:16 “Go, assemble all the Jews who are found in Susa and fast in my behalf. Don’t eat and don’t drink for three days, night or day. My female attendants and I
will also fast in the same way. Afterward I will go to the king, even though it violates the law.
If I perish, I perish!”
Jeremiah 8:14
Jeremiah Laments over the Coming Destruction
8:14 The people say,
“Why are we just sitting here?
Let us gather together inside the fortified cities.
Let us at least die there fighting,
since the Lord our God has condemned us to die.
He has condemned us to drink the poison waters of judgment
because we have sinned against him.
Jonah 3:9
3:9 Who knows?
Perhaps God might be willing to change his mind and relent
and turn from his fierce anger
so that we might not die.”
Luke 15:17-19
15:17 But when he came to his senses
he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food
enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!
15:18 I will get up and go to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned
against heaven
and against
you.
15:19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; treat me
like one of your hired workers.”’