ESTHER: If I have
found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be
granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. For we have been sold, I
and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had
been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our
affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king. Who is he who has
done this? A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!
If
it please the king, 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 the letters devised by Haman the Agagite, the son of
Hammedatha, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of
the king. For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming to my people?
Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?
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