Esther 8:6

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⁴ Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,

⁵ And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

⁷ Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

⁸ Write ye also for the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring: for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may no man reverse.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
KJV: For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
WEB: For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
ASV: for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
DARBY: For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?
BLB: For how could I bear when I have looked on the evil that would find my people? And how could I bear when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?”

ÅB: Hvordan skulle jeg kunne se på den ulykke som ville ramme mitt folk, og hvordan skulle jeg kunne se på min slekts undergang?
OTB: For hvordan kan jeg bære å se den ulykke som vil ramme mitt folk? Hvordan kan jeg utholde ødeleggelsen av min familie?"
B1930: Hvorledes skulde jeg kunne se på den ulykke som vilde ramme mitt folk, og hvorledes skulde jeg kunne se på min ætts undergang?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
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Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
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Romans 9:2–3
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
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Luke 19:41–42
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
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Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
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Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
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Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
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Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
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