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?"

In the evening she would go and in the morning she would return to the {second harem} {under the care of} Shaashgaz, the king's eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless the king delighted in her and she was called by name.