6For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?"


In Context

3 Esther again pleaded with the king, falling at his feet and weeping. She begged him to put an end to the evil plan of Haman the Agagite, which he had devised against the Jews.

4 Then the king extended the gold scepter to Esther and she arose and stood before him.

5 "If it pleases the king," she said, "and if he regards me with favor and thinks it the right thing to do, and if he is pleased with me, let an order be written overruling the dispatches that Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.

6 For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?"

7 King Xerxes replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Because Haman attacked the Jews, I have given his estate to Esther, and they have hanged him on the gallows.

8 Now write another decree in the king's name in behalf of the Jews as seems best to you, and seal it with the king's signet ring-for no document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring can be revoked."

Esther 8:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:6For 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?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:6For how call I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:6for 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6For 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?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:6for 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6For 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?|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:6for 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?'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:6For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?