Esther 8:6

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Genesis 44:34

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

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “Let the king live for ever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Esther 7:4

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”

Esther 9:1

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,

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.

Jeremiah 9:1

O 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

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