Parallel Verses
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 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?
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 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?"
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 She said, "If the king is so inclined and if I have met with his approval and if the matter is agreeable to the king and if I am attractive to him, let an edict be written rescinding those recorded intentions of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote in order to destroy the Jews who are throughout all the king's provinces. 6 For how can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?" 7 King Ahasuerus replied to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Look, I have already given Haman's estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he took hostile action against the Jews.
Cross References
Esther 7:4
For we have been sold -- both I and my people -- to destruction and to slaughter and to annihilation! If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not have been sufficient for troubling the king."
Genesis 44:34
For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn't bear to see my father's pain."
Nehemiah 2:3
I replied to the king, "O king, live forever! Why would I not appear dejected when the city with the graves of my ancestors lies desolate and its gates destroyed by fire?"
Esther 9:1
In the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), on its thirteenth day, the edict of the king and his law were to be executed. It was on this day that the enemies of the Jews had supposed that they would gain power over them. But contrary to expectations, the Jews gained power over their enemies.
Jeremiah 4:19
I said, "Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach! I writhe in anguish. Oh, the pain in my heart! My heart pounds within me. I cannot keep silent. For I hear the sound of the trumpet; the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!
Jeremiah 9:1
I wish that my head were a well full of water and my eyes were a fountain full of tears! If they were, I could cry day and night for those of my dear people who have been killed.
Luke 19:41-42
Now when Jesus approached and saw the city, he wept over it,
Romans 9:2-3
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
Romans 10:1
Brothers and sisters, my heart's desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites is for their salvation.