Esther 8:6 “For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people?…”

Esther 8:6

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?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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?

World English Bible

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?”

American Standard Version

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?

Geneva Bible 1599

For how can I suffer and see the euil, that shall come vnto my people? Or howe can I suffer and see the destruction of my kinred?

Darby Translation

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?

Young's Literal Translation

for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'

Bible in Basic English

For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?

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Cross references

“For how”

Romans 10:1 Genesis 44:34 Jeremiah 4:19 Jeremiah 9:1 Luke 19:41 Luke 19:42

Romans 10:1 · BSB

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is for their salvation.

Genesis 44:34 · BSB

For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Luke 19:41 · BSB

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Luke 19:42 · BSB

and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.

“the evil”

Esther 7:4 Nehemiah 2:3

Esther 7:4 · BSB

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening t…

Nehemiah 2:3 · BSB

and replied to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should I not be sad when the city where my fathers are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Also

Esther 9:1

Esther 9:1 · BSB

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

7So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.

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