Esther 8:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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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,

Esther 8:6 Cross References

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”

Romans 10:1

Brothers and sisters, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

Jeremiah 9:1

O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Jeremiah 4:19

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Esther 9:1

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain power over them but that had been changed to a day when the Jews would gain power over their foes,

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the suffering that would come upon my father.”