3Then Esther the queen answered, |If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.


In Context

1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, |What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.|

3 Then Esther the queen answered, |If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

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 bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's loss.|

5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, |Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?|

Esther 7:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Then Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor with you, O king, and if it pleases your majesty, grant me my life-this is my petition. And spare my people-this is my request.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found grace in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it shall please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:3And Esther the queen answereth and saith, 'If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king it be good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:3Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: