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?'


In Context

3 And Esther addeth, and speaketh before the king, and falleth before his feet, and weepeth, and maketh supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his device that he had devised against the Jews;

4 and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre, and Esther riseth, and standeth before the king,

5 and saith, 'If to the king it be good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I be good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters — a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite — that he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all provinces of the king,

6 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?'

7 And the king Ahasuerus saith to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Lo, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the tree, because that he put forth his hand on the Jews,

8 and ye, write ye for the Jews, as it is good in your eyes, in the name of the king, and seal with the signet of the king — for the writing that is written in the name of the king, and sealed with the signet of the king, there is none to turn back.'

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

8:6For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?"

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 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?