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?
Esther 8:6 in other translations
| BSB | For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?” |
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| WEB | For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?” |
| ASV | 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? |
| YLT | 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?' |
| DARBY | For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? |
| BBE | 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? |
| Webster | For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred? |
What does Esther 8:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Esther 8:5-6
5-6. reverse the letters devised by Haman ... to destroy the Jews--The whole conduct of Esther in this matter is characterized by great tact, and the variety of expressions by which she describes her willing submission to her royal husband, the address with which she rolls the whole infamy of the meditated massacre on Haman, and the argument she draws from the king's sanction being surreptitiously obtained, that the…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Esther 8:3-14
It was time to be earnest, when the church of God was at stake. Esther, though safe herself, fell down and begged for the deliverance of her people. We read of no tears when she begged for her own life, but although she was sure of that, she wept for her people. Tears of pity and tenderness are the most Christ-like. According to the constitution of the Persian government, no law or decree could be repealed or…
Esther 8:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Esther 8:6
- Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
- Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
- Romans 9:2-3
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:
- Luke 19:41-42
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! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
- Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
- Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
- Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
- Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
- Nehemiah 2:3
And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
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Context
- Esther 8:5
And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king’s provinces:
- 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?
- Esther 8:7
Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Esther 8:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque ¿cómo podré yo ver el mal que alcanzará á mi pueblo? ¿cómo podré yo ver la destrucción de mi nación? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car comment pourrai-je voir le malheur qui atteindra mon peuple, et comment pourrai-je voir la destruction de ma race? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn wie vermöchte ich das Unglück anzusehen, das mein Volk treffen wird? und wie vermöchte ich den Untergang meines Geschlechtes anzusehen? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quomodo enim potero sustinere necem et interfectionem populi mei? |