Then Esther the queen answered,“ If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

王后以斯帖回答说：“我若在王眼前蒙恩，王若以为美，我所愿的，是愿王将我的性命赐给我；我所求的，是求王将我的本族赐给我。

以斯帖王后回答说：“王啊，我若在你眼前蒙恩，王若以为好，我所要的，是王把我的性命赐给我；我所求的，是求我的本族。

以斯帖王后回答说：“王啊，我若在你眼前蒙恩，王若以为好，我所要的，是王把我的性命赐给我；我所求的，是求我的本族。

以斯帖回答说：“我若得到王的恩宠，王若愿意，就请王把我的性命和我本族人的性命赐给我——这是我所求的。

王后以斯帖回答，说：“我若是在你眼前蒙恩，王若是喜欢，我所要的，是要王把我的性命赐给我；我所求的，是求王把我的族人赐给我。

王后以斯帖回应说：“王啊，如果我在你眼前蒙恩，如果王认为好，就请王把我的性命赐予我，作为回应我的请求；也请王把我的民族赐予我，作为回应我所求的；

王后以斯帖回答說：「我若在王眼前蒙恩，王若以為美，我所願的，是願王將我的性命賜給我；我所求的，是求王將我的本族賜給我。

以斯帖王后回答說：「王啊，我若在你眼前蒙恩，王若以為好，我所要的，是王把我的性命賜給我；我所求的，是求我的本族。

以斯帖王后回答說：「王啊，我若在你眼前蒙恩，王若以為好，我所要的，是王把我的性命賜給我；我所求的，是求我的本族。

以斯帖回答說：「我若得到王的恩寵，王若願意，就請王把我的性命和我本族人的性命賜給我——這是我所求的。

王后以斯帖回答，說：“我若是在你眼前蒙恩，王若是喜歡，我所要的，是要王把我的性命賜給我；我所求的，是求王把我的族人賜給我。

王后以斯帖回答說：『王啊，我若在你面前蒙恩寵，王若以為好，我所求的、是求王將我的性命賜給我；我所要的、是要王將我本族之民賜給我。

王后以斯帖回應說：「王啊，如果我在你眼前蒙恩，如果王認為好，就請王把我的性命賜予我，作為回應我的請求；也請王把我的民族賜予我，作為回應我所求的；

后以斯帖對曰、我若沾恩於王前、且王悅之、則請依我所求、賜我生命、依我所欲、保我民族、

對曰、如王悅施恩婢子、則俯聽我祈、宥我生命、救我民族。

后以斯帖曰、我若蒙恩於王前、王若樂允、我所欲王賜我者乃我之生命、我所求王賜我者乃我之民族、或作求王救我生命求王救我民族

Then Queen Esther answered,“ If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if it pleases you, grant me my life— this is my petition. And spare my people— this is my request.

Then Queen Esther answered,“ Your Majesty, I hope you will be pleased to let me live. That’s what I want. Please spare my people. That’s my appeal to you.

Then Queen Esther answered,“ 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.

Queen Esther replied,“ If I have found favor with the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my request, I ask that my life and the lives of my people will be spared.

Queen Esther answered,“ If I have found favor with you, Your Majesty, and if the king is pleased, spare my life; this is my request. And spare my people; this is my desire.

Then Queen Esther replied,“ If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my request, and my people as my wish;

Then Queen Esther answered and said,“ If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Queen Esther answered,“ If I have obtained your approval, my king, and if the king is pleased, spare my life— this is my request; and spare my people— this is my desire.

Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Queen Esther replied,“ If I have met with your approval, O king, and if the king is so inclined, grant me my life as my request, and my people as my petition.

then you shall tell them,‘ I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.’”

Satan answered Yahweh, and said,“ Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him,“ Man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty of your servants, be precious in your sight.

He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I will prepare for them, and I will do tomorrow as the king has said.”

The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.For my brothers’ and companions’ sakes, I will now say,“ Peace be within you.”For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good.

His servants said to him,“ See now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our bodies, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Maybe he will save your life.”