THEOSISEsther 8:6Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
For how can I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?
כִּ֠י אֵיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בָּרָעָ֖ה אֲשֶׁר־יִמְצָ֣א אֶת־עַמִּ֑י וְאֵֽיכָכָ֤ה אוּכַל֙ וְֽרָאִ֔יתִי בְּאָבְדַ֖ן מוֹלַדְתִּֽי׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Esth 7:4For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
- Rom 10:1Brethren, the will of my heart, indeed and my prayer to God is for them unto salvation.
- Rom 9:2That I have great sadness and continual sorrow in my heart.
- Rom 9:3For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:
- Neh 2:3And I said to the king: O king, live for ever: why should not my countenance be sorrowful, seeing the city of the place of the sepulchres of my fathers is desolate, and the gates thereof are burnt with fire?
- Luke 19:41And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying:
- Luke 19:42If thou also hadst known, and that in this thy day, the things that are to thy peace: but now they are hidden from thy eyes.
- Jer 4:19My bowels, my bowels are in part, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.