Esther 8:4-6

New Catholic Bible

⁴ Then the king extended the golden scepter to Esther, and she arose and stood before him.

⁵ “If it pleases your majesty,” she said, “and seems the right thing to do, and if I have found favor with you so that you love me, let an order be issued to overrule the letters that Haman, son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, devised and wrote for the destruction of the Jews in all the royal provinces. ⁶ For how can I bear to see the evil that is about to fall on my people, and how can I behold the destruction of my race?”