Esther 5:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ If I have found favour in the eyes of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and perform my request,  may the king and Haman come to the banquet I will prepare for them.  Tomorrow I will do what the king has asked.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ if I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Then Esther said, My petition and my request is: If I have found favor in the sight of the king and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come tomorrow to the dinner that I shall prepare for them; and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to-morrow as the king hath said.

Common English Bible

⁸ If I please the king, and if the king wishes to grant my wish and my desire, I’d like the king and Haman to come to another feast that I will prepare for them. Tomorrow I will answer the king’s questions.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ And Haman said to king Artaxerxes, "There is a people dispersed throughout all the provinces of your kingdom and separated one from another, who make use of unusual laws and ceremonies, and who, in addition, show contempt for the king's ordinances. And you know very well that it is not expedient for your kingdom that they should become insolent through independence.

Esther 5:8 Cross References

Esther 1:9

Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women of King Ahasuerus’s palace.

Esther 5:12

‘What’s more,’ Haman added, ‘Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she had prepared. I am invited again tomorrow to join her with the king.

Esther 5:7

Esther answered, ‘This is my petition and my request:

Esther 7:1

The king and Haman came to feast  , with Esther the queen.

Esther 7:3

Queen Esther answered, ‘If I have found favour with you, Your Majesty, and if the king is pleased,  spare my life; this is my request. And spare my people; this is my desire.

Esther 8:5

She said, ‘If it pleases the king and I have found favour with him, if the matter seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes,  let a royal edict be written. Let it revoke the documents the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.

Proverbs 16:9

A person’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps.