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

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!

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.

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

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

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

The evil

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.'

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?'