Esther 8:6

Modern English Version

For how am I able to watch the evil that will unfold against my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Cross References

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me, lest perhaps I see the evil that would find my father?”

Nehemiah 2:3

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

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If only we had been sold as male and female slaves, I could have kept quiet, for that distress would not be sufficient to trouble the king.”

Esther 9:1

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s edict and his decree were to be carried out on the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to have power over them, things were turned around. The Jews gained power over those who hated them.

Jeremiah 4:19

My soul, my soul! I am pained at my very heart. My heart makes a noise in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 9:1

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

Romans 10:1

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