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?

For how call I endure the murdering and slaughter of my people?

For how shall I endure to see the evil that shall befall my people? and how shall I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that doth find my people? and how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my kindred?'

For how is it possible for me to see the evil which is to overtake my nation? how may I see the destruction of my people?

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?'

To see the destruction of my kindred? - She had now informed the king that she was cousin to Mordecai, and consequently a Jewess; and though her own life and that of Mordecai were no longer in danger, Haman being dead, yet the decree that had gone forth was in full force against the Jews; and if not repealed, their destruction would be inevitable.

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 people 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.