Esther 8:6

New King James Version

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 countrymen?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Hebrew Names Version
for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?

King James Version
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?

English Standard Version
For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?"

New Century Version
I could not stand to see that terrible thing happen to my people. I could not stand to see my family killed."

New English Translation
For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?"

Amplified Bible
"For how can I endure to see the tragedy that will happen to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

New American Standard Bible
"For how can I endure to see the disaster which will happen to my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

World English Bible
for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?

Geneva Bible (1587)
For how can I suffer and see the euil, that shall come vnto my people? Or howe can I suffer and see the destruction of my kinred?

Legacy Standard Bible
For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the perishing of my kinsmen?"

Berean Standard Bible
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?"

Contemporary English Version
and I can't bear to see my people and my own relatives destroyed."

Complete Jewish Bible
For how can I bear to see the disaster that will overcome my people? How can I endure seeing the extermination of my kinsmen?"

Darby Translation
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?

Easy-to-Read Version
I am begging the king because I could not bear to see these terrible things happen to my people. I could not bear to see my family killed."

George Lamsa Translation
For how can I endure to see the calamity that shall come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Good News Translation
How can I endure it if this disaster comes on my people, and my own relatives are killed?"

Lexham English Bible
For how can I bear to look on the disaster that will find my people, and how can I bear to look on the destruction of my family?"

Literal Translation
For how shall I be able to look on the evil that shall find my people? Or how shall I be able to look on the slaughter of my kindred?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For how can I se the euell that shal happe vnto my people? and how can I loke vpon the destruction of my kynred?

American Standard Version
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?

Bible in Basic English
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?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For how can I suffer and see the euill that shall come vnto my people? or how can I beare and loke vpon the destruction of my kindred?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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?'

King James Version (1611)
For how can I endure to see the euill that shall come vnto my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kinred?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For how shall I be able to look upon the affliction of my people, and how shall I be able to survive the destruction of my kindred?

English Revised Version
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?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
for hou schal Y mowe suffre the deth, and the sleyng of my puple?

Update Bible Version
for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come to my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?

New Living Translation
For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?"

New Life Bible
For how can I stand to see all the trouble that will come to my people? How can I keep on if I see them destroyed?"

New Revised Standard
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?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For how can I endure to see the ruin that shall overtake my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

Douay-Rheims Bible
For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?

Revised Standard Version
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?"

Young's Literal Translation
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?'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?"

Contextual Overview

³ Now Esther spoke again to the king, fell down at his feet, and implored him with tears to counteract the evil of Haman the Agagite, and the scheme which he had devised against the Jews. ⁴ And the king held out the golden scepter toward Esther. So Esther arose and stood before the king, ⁵ and said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight and the thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to annihilate the Jews who are in all the king's provinces. ⁶ 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 countrymen?" ⁷ Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew, "Indeed, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he tried to lay his hand on the Jews. ⁸ You yourselves write a decree concerning the Jews, as you please, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's signet ring; for whatever is written in the king's name and sealed with the king's signet ring no one can revoke." ⁹ So the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day; and it was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded, to the Jews, the satraps, the governors, and the princes of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, one hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all, to every province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language. ¹⁰ And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, sealed it with the king's signet ring, and sent letters by couriers on horseback, riding on royal horses bred from swift steeds. [fn] ¹¹ By these letters the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and protect their lives--to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province that would assault them, both little children and women, and to plunder their possessions, ¹² on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. [fn]

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For how: Genesis 44:34, Jeremiah 4:19, Jeremiah 9:1, Luke 19:41, Luke 19:42, Romans 9:2, Romans 9:3, Romans 10:1

endure to see: Heb. be able that I may see

the evil: Esther 7:4, Nehemiah 2:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:16 - Let Joshua 2:12 - that ye will Joshua 2:18 - thy father Esther 4:8 - request Jeremiah 39:6 - before

Cross-References

Genesis 6:16
You shall make a window for the ark, and you shall finish it to a cubit from above; and set the door of the ark in its side. You shall make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Daniel 6:10
Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?.... I cannot bear it; it will break my heart; I shall die to see all my people massacred throughout the realm; the thought of it is shocking and shuddering; to see it, intolerable: or "how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?" the same thing in different words, and somewhat more express and explanative. She explains the evil coming upon her people of the utter destruction of them, not barely an oppression, but an extermination of them; and she makes use of a word expressive of their relation to her, as more endearing, being her kindred; she and they being, as it were, of the same family, and with whom she could not but sympathize in distress.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 8:6. To see the destruction of my kindred? — She had now informed the king that she was cousin to Mordecai, and consequently a Jewess; and though her own life and that of Mordecai were no longer in danger, Haman being dead, yet the decree that had gone forth was in full force against the Jews; and if not repealed, their destruction would be inevitable.