Parallel Verses
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?
New American Standard Bible
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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?
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?
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 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 said, If it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing is right before the king, and if I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the documents (a sly plan by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite) which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces. 6 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? 7 And King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and have hanged him on the wooden gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.
Cross References
Esther 7:4
For we are sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. But if we had been sold for men-slaves and women-slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could not make up for the king's damage.
Genesis 44:34
For how shall I go up to my father, and the boy is not with me lest perhaps I see the evil that will find my father?
Nehemiah 2:3
And I said to the king, Let the king live forever. Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers' tombs, lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire?
Esther 9:1
And in the twelfth month, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and his order came to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them; though it was turned around, so that the Jews had rule over the ones who hated them.
Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I convulse in pain. O walls of my heart! My heart is restless within me; I cannot be silent because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the ram's horn, the alarm of war.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my 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 as He drew near, He beheld the city and wept over it,
Romans 9:2-3
that I have great heaviness and continual pain in my heart.
Romans 10:1
Brothers, truly my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is for it to be saved.