Esther 8:3-6 ▼

3 And Esther adds, and speaks before the king, and falls before his feet, and weeps, and makes supplication to him, to cause the evil of Haman the Agagite to pass away, and his scheme that he had devised against the Jews;

4 and the king holds out to Esther the golden scepter, and Esther rises, and stands before the king,

5 and says, “If to the king [it be] good, and if I have found grace before him, and the thing has been right before the king, and I [am] good in his eyes, let it be written to bring back the letters—a scheme of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite—that he wrote to destroy the Jews who [are] in all provinces of the king,

6 for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that finds my people? And how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my family?”