Esther 8:6 - The Scriptures 2009

⁶ “For how could I bear to see the evil coming to my people? Or how could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ 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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come upon my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ 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?

Common English Bible

⁶ How can I bear to watch the terrible evil about to sweep over my people? And how can I bear to watch others destroy my own family?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ We have sinned in your sight, and therefore you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,

English Standard Version 2016

⁶ For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Esther 8:6 Cross References

Genesis 44:34

“For how do I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest I see the evil that would come upon my father?”

Nehemiah 2:3

and said to the sovereign, “Let the sovereign live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ burial-sites, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?”

Esther 7:4

“For we have been sold, my people and I, to be cut off, to be killed, and to be destroyed. And if we had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent, although the adversary could not make up for the sovereign’s loss.”

Esther 9:1

And in the twelfth new moon, that is, the new moon of Aḏar, on the thirteenth day, when the sovereign’s command and his decree came to be done, on the day that the enemies of the Yehuḏim had waited to overpower them, it turned around, so that the Yehuḏim overpowered those who hated them.

Jeremiah 4:19

O my inward parts, my inward parts! I am in pain! O the walls of my heart! My heart pounds in me, I am not silent. For you have heard, O my being, a voice of a shophar, a shout of battle!

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh, that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, and I would weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Romans 10:1

Truly brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to Elohim for Yisra’ĕl is for deliverance.