Esther 7:3-5

Legacy Standard Bible

³ Then Queen Esther answered and said, “^(A)If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it seems good to the king, let my life be given to me as ^[a]my petition, and my people as ^[b]my request; ⁴ for ^(B)we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ^(C)to be killed, and to be caused to perish. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the ^[c]adversity would not be worth the ^[d]annoyance to the king.” ⁵ Then King Ahasuerus said—he said to Esther the Queen, “Who is this one, and where is this one, who fills his heart to do thus?”