Esther 8:4-6

New American Standard Bible 1995

^4 (A)The king extended the golden scepter to Esther. So Esther arose and stood before the king. ⁵ Then she said, “^(B)If it pleases the king and if I have found favor before him and the matter seems proper to the king and I am pleasing in his sight, let it be written to revoke the ^(C)letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces. ⁶ For ^(D)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?”