Devine Scripture

Esther 8:6

Esther chapter 8 · verse 6 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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?

Context

v.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:

v.6This passage

v.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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Romans 10:1

    Brethren, my heart’s desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.

  • Nehemiah 2:3

    And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

  • Romans 9:2

    that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

  • Esther 9:1

    Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them (whereas it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them),

  • Genesis 44:34

    For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.

  • Jeremiah 4:19

    My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.