Ester 7:3

3 Ester respondió:—Si me he ganado el favor de Su Majestad, y si le parece bien, mi deseo es que me conceda la vida. Mi petición es que se compadezca de mi pueblo.

Ester 7:3 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 7:3

Then Esther the queen answered and said
Not rolling herself at the king's knees, as Severus ^F6 writes; but rather, as the former Targum, lifting up her eyes to heaven, and perhaps putting up a secret ejaculation for direction and success:

if I have found favour in thy sight, O king;
as she certainly had heretofore, and even now:

and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition;
not riches, nor honour, nor any place or post at court, or in any of the king's dominions for any friend of her's, was her petition; but for her own life, that that might not be taken away, which was included in the grant the king had made to Haman, though ignorantly, to slay all the Jews, she being one of them:

and my people at my request;
that is, the lives of her people also, that was her request; her own life and her people's were all she had to ask.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Hist. Sacr. l. 2.

Ester 7:3 In-Context

1 El rey y Amán fueron al banquete de la reina Ester,

2 y al segundo día, mientras brindaban, el rey le preguntó otra vez:—Dime qué deseas, reina Ester, y te lo concederé. ¿Cuál es tu petición? ¡Aun cuando fuera la mitad del reino, te lo concedería!

3 Ester respondió:—Si me he ganado el favor de Su Majestad, y si le parece bien, mi deseo es que me conceda la vida. Mi petición es que se compadezca de mi pueblo.

4 Porque a mí y a mi pueblo se nos ha vendido para exterminio, muerte y aniquilación. Si solo se nos hubiera vendido como esclavos, yo me habría quedado callada, pues tal angustia no sería motivo suficiente para inquietar a Su Majestad.

5 El rey le preguntó:—¿Y quién es ese que se ha atrevido a concebir semejante barbaridad? ¿Dónde está?