Esther 7:3-5

New American Standard Bible

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 request, and my people as my wish; ⁴ for ^(B)we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, ^(C)killed, and eliminated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have kept silent, because the distress would not be sufficient reason to burden the king.” ⁵ Then King Ahasuerus ^[a]asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, ^[b]who would presume to do such a thing?”