Esther 8:6

Mordecai Is Promoted

⁵ and said - If, unto the king, it seem good, and if I have found favour before him, and the thing be approved before the king, and, I myself, be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written, to reverse the letters plotted by Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy thee Jews, who are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶ 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? ⁷ Then said King Ahasuerus unto Esther the queen, and unto Mordecai the Jew, - Lo! the house of Haman, have I given unto Esther, and, him, have they hanged upon the gallows, because he thrust forth his hand against the Jews.

My People

Looked Up

Esther 7:4

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be caused to perish. If indeed, for bondmen and for bondwomen, we had been sold, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have made good the damage to the king.

Genesis 44:34

For how can I go up unto my father, should the lad, not be with me? lest I look on the calamity, that shall find out my father,

Nehemiah 2:3

and said unto the king - Let the, king, unto times age-abiding, live! Wherefore should my countenance, not be sad, when, the city - the place of the sepulchres of my fathers, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?

Esther 9:1

And, in the twelfth month, the same, is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day thereof, when the word of the king and his edict arrived to be put in execution, - on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, though it, was changed, so that the Jews themselves should have power over them who hated them,

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels! My bowels! I am pained in the walls of my heart My heart beateth aloud to me I cannot be still! For the sound of a horn, hast thou heard O my soul, The loud shout 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 near, beholding the city, he wept over it, saying -

Romans 9:2-3

That I have great grief and incessant travail in my heart;

Romans 10:1

Brethren! the delight of my own heart and my supplication God-ward in their behalf, are for salvation;