Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

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? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

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?"

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?'

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
איככה איכה איך 
'eyk 
Usage: 82

יכול יכל 
Yakol 
יכול יכל 
Yakol 
Usage: 194
Usage: 194

to see
ראה 
Ra'ah 
ראה 
Ra'ah 
Usage: 1308
Usage: 1308

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

or how
איככה איכה איך 
'eyk 
Usage: 82

H13
אבדן 
'obdan 
Usage: 1

Context Readings

Mordecai Is Promoted

5 She said: If it is the king's pleasure and if I have his approval and this thing seems right to the king and I am pleasing to him, then let letters be sent giving orders against those which Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, sent out for the destruction of the Jews in all divisions of the kingdom. 6 For how can I endure to see the calamity which will befall my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?” 7 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

Cross References

Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold for slaughter and destruction. If we had been taken as men-servants and women-servants for a price, I would have said nothing, for our trouble is little in comparison with the king's loss.

Genesis 44:34

How can I face my father if Benjamin is not with me? I could not bear to see my father in such sorrow.

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king: May the king live a very long time. My face should look sad for the town where my fathers are buried is devastated. It has been destroyed by fire.

Esther 9:1

Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to rule over them the opposite occurred, and the Jews had rule over their enemies.

Jeremiah 4:19

O my anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart pounds in side of me. My heart is pounding! I cannot keep quiet because I hear a ram's horn sounding the alarm for war.

Jeremiah 9:1

Oh that my head were waters and my eyes a fountain of tears. Then I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!

Luke 19:41-42

When he came close to the city he wept over it.

Romans 9:2-3

I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.

Romans 10:1

Brothers, my hearts desire and my prayer to God for Israel is for their salvation.

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