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Esther 8:6

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?

KJV

Quomodo enim potero sustinere necem et interfectionem populi mei ?

Vulgate

πῶς γὰρ δυνήσομαι ἰδεῖν τὴν κάκωσιν τοῦ λαοῦ μου, καὶ πῶς δυνήσομαι σωθῆναι ἐν τῇ ἀπωλείᾳ τῆς πατρίδος μου;

LXX

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?

ASV

כִּ֠י אֵיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽ/רָאִ֔יתִי בָּ/רָעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר יִמְצָ֣א אֶת עַמִּ֑/י וְ/אֵֽיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽ/רָאִ֔יתִי בְּ/אָבְדַ֖ן מוֹלַדְתִּֽ/י

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֲשֶׁר
'shr
particle · 5461×
אֵ֚יךְ
'yk
particle · 82×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
אָבְדַ֖ן
'bdn
noun · 1×
הוּ
hv
verb · 455×
י
y
noun · 22×
י
y
noun · 1849×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יוּכַ֣ל
yvkl
verb · 193×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×

Typology

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Esth 7:4 — For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the kin
  • Gen 21:16 — And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wep
  • Gen 44:34 — For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.
  • Josh 2:12 — Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:
  • Rom 9:2 — That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
  • Rom 9:3 — For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
  • Rom 10:1 — Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.