Esther 8:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

The evil

Esther 7:4

Nehemiah 2:3

Bible References

For how

for how should I go up to my father if the lad were not with me? lest I see the evil that would come on my father.

My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war.

Oh that my head were waters, and mine eye a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

And as he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it,

that I have great grief and uninterrupted pain in my heart,

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

The evil

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 adversary could not compensate the king's damage.

And I said to the king, Let the king live for ever! Why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' sepulchres, lies waste, and its gates are consumed with fire?