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 can I go up to my father if the boy is not with me? {I do not want to see} the misery which will find my father."

My bowels, my bowels! I writhe! The walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me, I cannot keep silent, for I hear [in] my inner self the sound of a horn, [the] alarm of war.

{Oh that my head were waters}, and my eyes a fountain of tears, so that I might weep day and night, [for] the slain of the daughter of my people.

And when he approached [and] saw the city, he wept over it,

that my grief is great and [there is] constant distress in my heart.

Brothers, the desire of my heart and my prayer to God on behalf of them [is] for [their] salvation.

The evil

I and my people have been sold to be destroyed and killed, to be annihilated. If we had been sold as male and female slaves I would have kept quiet, because this is not a need sufficient to trouble the king."

I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad when the city of my ancestors' burial site is ruined and her gates are consumed by fire?"