Esther 7:3-5

International Standard Version

³ Queen Esther answered: “If I’ve found favor with you, your majesty, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me as my petition and my people as my request. ⁴ Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn’t have been sufficient to bother the king.”^[a]

⁵ Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the person who would dare^[b] do this?”