Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
For
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?
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?
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?"
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?'
Topics
Interlinear
Yakol
יכול יכל
Yakol
could, able, cannot, prevail, may, can, canst, endure, might,
Usage: 194
Ra'ah
ראה
Ra'ah
see, look, behold, shew, appear, consider, seer, spy, respect, perceive, provide, regard, enjoy, lo, foreseeth, heed,
Usage: 1308
Ra`
Matsa'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Esther 8:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mordecai Is Promoted
5 And she said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces: 6 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? 7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Cross References
Esther 7:4
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 peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king's damage.
Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, if the lad be not with me? lest I see the evil that shall come on my father.
Nehemiah 2:3
And I said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule over them, (whereas it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them,)
Jeremiah 4:19
My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I cannot hold my peace; because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Luke 19:41-42
And when he drew nigh, he saw the city and wept over it,
Romans 9:2-3
that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
Romans 10:1
Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.