Esther 7:3-5

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ Then Queen Esther answered, “If I have won your favor, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me—that is my petition—and the lives of my people—that is my request. ⁴ 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 held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”^{[a] 5} Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?”