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?”

我何忍见我本族的人受害？何忍见我同宗的人被灭呢？”

我何忍见我本族的人受害？何忍见我同宗的人被灭呢？”

我何忍见我本族的人受害？何忍见我同宗的人被灭呢？”

我怎能忍心看我本族的人受害？我怎能忍心看我的亲族被杀？”

因为我怎忍看见我的同胞受害呢？我怎忍看见我的族人消灭呢？”

我怎么能看着我的民族遭受这灾祸呢？怎么能看着我的宗族灭亡呢？”

我何忍見我本族的人受害？何忍見我同宗的人被滅呢？」

我何忍見我本族的人受害？何忍見我同宗的人被滅呢？」

我何忍見我本族的人受害？何忍見我同宗的人被滅呢？」

我怎能忍心看我本族的人受害？我怎能忍心看我的親族被殺？」

因為我怎忍看見我的同胞受害呢？我怎忍看見我的族人消滅呢？”

因為我怎忍得見我本族之民受害呢？我怎忍得見我的親族被滅盡呢？』

我怎麼能看著我的民族遭受這災禍呢？怎麼能看著我的宗族滅亡呢？」

我民遇害、我何以堪、我族被滅、我何忍見、

我之民族、遇害被殺、我何忍見。

我何忍見我民族遇害、何忍見我同宗被滅、

For how can I bear to see disaster fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my family?”

I couldn’t stand by and see the horrible trouble that would fall on my people! I couldn’t stand to see my family destroyed!”

For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?”

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

For how can I endure to see the disaster which will happen to my people, and how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

For how can I endure to see the evil that will come to my people? Or how can I endure to see the destruction of my countrymen?”

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 could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

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 can I watch the calamity that will befall my people, and how can I watch the destruction of my relatives?”

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

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.”

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved.

And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it,saying,“ Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.

I said to the king,“ Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I fear to see the evil that would find my father.”

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh the walls of my heart! My heart is beating wildly; I cannot keep silent, for I hear the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!