EST 7:3 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) “Your majesty,” Queen Esther replied, “if you are pleased with me, I hope you’ll be willing to do what I ask. Please allow me to live, and please save my people. That is what I am asking for

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT And Esther the queen answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request.

UST Then Queen Esther replied, “If you are pleased with me, O king, I hope you will be willing to do what I ask. Please allow me to live, and please save my people. That is what I am asking for.

BSB § Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.

OEB Then Queen Esther answered, ‘Your Majesty, if I have won your favour, and if it seems best to Your Majesty, let my life be given me as my petition, and my people as my request,

WEBBE Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Queen Esther replied, “If I have met with your approval, O king, and if the king is so inclined, grant me my life as my request, and my people as my petition.

LSV And Esther the queen answers and says, “If I have found grace in your eyes, O king, and if to the king [it be] good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;

FBV Queen Esther answered, “If the king looks on me favorably, and if it please Your Majesty to grant me my life, that is my request; and the lives of my people, that is what I ask.

T4T Esther replied, “O king, if you are pleased with me, and if you are willing to do what I ask, save me, and save my people. That is what I want you to do for me.

LEB Then Queen Esther answered, and she said, “If I have found favor in your eyes,[fn] O king, and if it is good to the king, let my life be given to me at my petition and my people at my request;

7:3 Or “If I have won your favor”

BBE Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:

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JPS Then Esther the queen answered and said: 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;

ASV Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

DRA Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.

YLT And Esther the queen answereth and saith, 'If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king [it be] good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;

Drby And Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found grace in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;

RV Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Wbstr Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it shall please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

KJB-1769 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
(Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy/your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: )

KJB-1611 Then Esther the Queene answered, and said; If I haue found fauour in thy sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be giuen me at my petition, and my people at my request.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps And Esther the queene aunswered, and saide: If I haue found grace in thy sight O king, and if it please the king, then graunt me my lyfe at my desire, and my people for my petitions sake.
(And Esther the queen answered, and said: If I have found grace in thy/your sight O king, and if it please the king, then grant me my life at my desire, and my people for my petitions sake.)

Gnva And Ester the Queene answered, and said, If I haue found fauour in thy sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be giuen me at my petition, and my people at my request.
(And Ester the Queen answered, and said, If I have found favour in thy/your sight, O King, and if it please the King, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. )

Cvdl Hester ye quene answered and sayde: Yf I haue founde grace in thy sighte (O kynge) and yf it please the kynge, then graunte me my lyfe at my desyre and my people for my peticions sake:
(Esther ye/you_all queen answered and said: If I have found grace in thy/your sight (O kynge) and if it please the king, then grant me my life at my desire and my people for my peticions sake:)

Wycl To whom sche answeride, A! king, if Y haue founde grace in thin iyen, and if it plesith thee, yyue thou my lijf to me, for which Y preie, and my puple, for which Y biseche.
(To whom she answered, A! king, if I have found grace in thin eyes, and if it plesith thee/you, give thou/you my life to me, for which I preie, and my people, for which I biseche.)

Luth Esther, die Königin, antwortete und sprach: Habe ich Gnade vor dir funden, o König, und gefällt es dem Könige, so gib mir mein Leben um meiner Bitte willen und mein Volk um meines Begehrens willen.
(Esther, the queen, replied and spoke: goods I Gnade before/in_front_of you/to_you funden, o king, and gefällt it to_him kings/king, so give to_me my life around/by/for my Bitte willen and my people around/by/for my Begehrens willen.)

ClVg Ad quem illa respondit: Si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis o rex, et si tibi placet, dona mihi animam meam pro qua rogo, et populum meum pro quo obsecro.
(Ad which that answered: When/But_if inveni gratiam in oculis tuis o rex, and when/but_if to_you placet, dona to_me animam meam for which rogo, and the_people mine for quo obsecro. )

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / hendiadys

וַ⁠תַּ֨עַן & וַ⁠תֹּאמַ֔ר

and,answered & and=she/it_said

Here a single idea is being expressed by using two words connected with “and.” Together the two words mean that Esther responded to the question that the king asked her. Alternate translation: “answered”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

אִם־מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּ⁠עֵינֶ֨י⁠ךָ֙

if found graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty in/on/at/with,eyes,your

Favor means the approval or acceptance of another person. Alternate translation: “if you evaluate me and approve” or “if you are pleased with me”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metonymy

אִם־מָצָ֨אתִי חֵ֤ן בְּ⁠עֵינֶ֨י⁠ךָ֙

if found graciousness/kindness/favour/beauty in/on/at/with,eyes,your

Here, eyes represent seeing, and seeing is a metaphor for knowledge, notice, attention, or judgment. Alternate translation: “if you evaluate me and approve” or “if you are pleased with me”

הַ⁠מֶּ֔לֶךְ

the=king

In this case, Esther is addressing Ahasuerus directly as “O king”; she is not speaking about him in the third person as a sign of respect, as she and others usually do elsewhere in the story. This may indicate a special urgency to what she is saying, so it would be good to include this difference in your translation or indicate the urgency in some other way.

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

וְ⁠אִם־עַל־הַ⁠מֶּ֖לֶךְ ט֑וֹב

and=if on/upon/above/on_account_of//he/it_went_in the=king good

This is an idiom that also appears in 1:19, 3:9, 5:4, and 5:8. The suggested translation in those cases was, “If it seems like a good plan to you, O king.” That was suitable for the deferential tone the speakers were using. But here, Esther has just addressed the king directly with “O king” and she is pleading urgently for the survival of her whole people. So an alternate translation here could be something more like, “I hope you will be willing to do what I ask”

Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / parallelism

תִּנָּֽתֶן־לִ֤⁠י נַפְשִׁ⁠י֙ בִּ⁠שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔⁠י וְ⁠עַמִּ֖⁠י בְּ⁠בַקָּשָׁתִֽ⁠י

given to=me life,my in/on/at/with,petition,my and,people,my in/on/at/with,request,my

The phrases at my petition and at my request mean the same thing. The repetition is used to emphasize the urgency of the request. If it would be more natural in your language, you could combine the two requests. Alternate translation: “please spare my life and save my people” or “my request is that you spare my life and the lives of my people”

Note 6 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

תִּנָּֽתֶן־לִ֤⁠י נַפְשִׁ⁠י֙

given to=me life,my

You can say this with an active form. Alternate translation: “please spare my life”

Note 7 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

בִּ⁠שְׁאֵ֣לָתִ֔⁠י

in/on/at/with,petition,my

The abstract noun petition can be expressed with the verb “ask for.” Alternate translation: “that is what I am asking for” or “that is what I want”

Note 8 topic: figures-of-speech / ellipsis

וְ⁠עַמִּ֖⁠י

and,people,my

If this is unclear in your language, you can repeat from the previous clause the words that have been left out. Alternate translation: “and let my people be given to me”

Note 9 topic: figures-of-speech / abstractnouns

בְּ⁠בַקָּשָׁתִֽ⁠י

in/on/at/with,request,my

The abstract noun request can be expressed with the verb “ask for.” Alternate translation: “rhat is what I am asking for” or “rhat is what I want”

Parallel EST 7:3