Esther 7:3-5

New American Standard Bible 1995

³ Then Queen Esther replied, “^(A)If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request; ⁴ for ^(B)we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ^(C)to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have remained silent, for the ^[a]trouble would not be commensurate with the ^[b]annoyance to the king.” ⁵ Then King Ahasuerus ^[c]asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, ^[d]who would presume to do thus?”