Esther 8:4-6

English Standard Version

^4 (A)When the king held out the golden scepter to Esther, Esther rose and stood before the king. ⁵ And she said, “If it please the king, ^(B)and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let an order be written to revoke ^(C)the letters devised by Haman ^(D)the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king. ⁶ For how can I bear ^(E)to see the calamity that is coming to my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”