Esther 8:5-7

Revised Geneva Translation

⁵ And said, “If it please the king —and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing is acceptable before the king, and I please him —let it be written that the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces, may be revoked.

⁶ “For how can I suffer and see the evil that shall come to my people? Or how can I suffer and see the destruction of my kindred?”

⁷ And King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, whom they have hanged upon the tree, because he laid hands upon the Jews.