Parallel Verses

Youngs 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

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?”

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?

Holman 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?”

International Standard Version

Indeed, how can I bear to see this disaster happen to my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my kinsmen?"

A Conservative 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?

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?

Amplified

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?”

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?

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?

Julia Smith Translation

For how shall I be able and I looked upon the evil which shall be found with my people? And how shall I be able and I looked upon the destruction of my kindred?

King James 2000

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?

Lexham Expanded 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?"

Modern King James verseion

For how can I bear to see the evil that shall come on my people? Or how can I endure to see the slaughter of my kindred?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For how can I see the evil that shall happen unto my people? And how can I look upon the destruction of my kindred?"

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

For how can I endure to see the disaster that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"

The 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?

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?

World English Bible

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?"

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
איככה איכה איך 
'eyk 
Usage: 82

יכול יכל 
Yakol 
יכול יכל 
Yakol 
Usage: 194
Usage: 194

to see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308
Usage: 1308

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

or how
איככה איכה איך 
'eyk 
Usage: 82

H13
אבדן 
'obdan 
Usage: 1

Context Readings

Mordecai Is Promoted

5 and saith, 'If to the king it be good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing hath been right before the king, and I be good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters -- a device of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite -- that he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all provinces of the king, 6 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?' 7 And the king Ahasuerus saith to Esther the queen, and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Lo, the house of Haman I have given to Esther, and him they have hanged on the tree, because that he put forth his hand on the Jews,


Cross References

Esther 7:4

for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent -- but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.'

Genesis 44:34

for how do I go up unto my father, and the youth not with me? lest I look on the evil which doth find my father.'

Nehemiah 2:3

and say to the king, 'Let the king to the age live! wherefore should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of the graves of my fathers, is a waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?'

Esther 9:1

And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul -- a shout of battle!

Jeremiah 9:1

Who doth make my head waters, And mine eye a fountain of tears? And I weep by day and by night, For the wounded of the daughter of my people.

Luke 19:41-42

And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it,

Romans 9:2-3

that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart --

Romans 10:1

Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that is to God for Israel, is -- for salvation;

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