Esther 8:6

WEB

For how can I endure to see the disaster that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?"

KJV

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?

Commentary

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people?.... I cannot bear it; it will break my heart; I shall die to see all my peopl e massacred throughout the realm; the thought of it is shocking and shuddering; to see it, intolerable: or "how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?" the same thing in different words, and somewhat more express and explanative. She explains the evil coming upon her people of the utter destruction of them, not barely an oppression, but an extermination of them; and she makes use of a word expressive of their relation to her, as more endearing, being her kindred; she and they being, as it were, of the same family, and with whom she could not but sympathize in distress.