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Esther 8:6

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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?

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Esther 8:6 in other translations

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?”

Esther 8:6 · World English Bible

Esther 8:6 in context

  1. 4Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
  2. 5And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor 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 that are in all the king’s provinces:
  3. 6for 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?
  4. 7Then 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.
  5. 8Write ye also to the Jews, as it pleaseth 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.