Esther 8:6
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?
Context
This verse from Esther Chapter 8 connects to 10 cross-references. Ahasuerus gives Esther Haman's estate and elevates Mordecai; Esther pleads for a new royal decree to counter Haman's order. The king grants Mordecai and Esther the authority to write a counter-edict, which allows the Jews to assemble, defend themselves, and …
Other Translations
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?
for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'
For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?
Cross References
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see …
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the …
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we …
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s …
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot …
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night …
And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,
Saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! …
That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: