if

For we are sold, I, and my people, to be destroyed, to be slaine, and to perish: but if we had bene sold for bondmen, and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not counteruaile the kings dammage.

1611 marginal noteHebr. that they should destroy and kil, and cause to perish.

And said, If it please the king, and if I haue found fauour in his sight, and the thing seeme right before the king, and I bee pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reuerse the letters deuised by Haman the sonne of Hammedatha the Agagite, which hee wrote to destroy the Iewes, which are in all the kings prouinces.

1611 marginal noteHeb. the deuice.

1611 marginal noteOr, who wrote.

Then said Esther, If it please the king, Let it bee granted to the Iewes which are in Shushan, to doe to morow also, according vnto this dayes decree, and let Hamans ten sonnes be hanged vpon the gallous.

1611 marginal noteHebr. let men hang.

If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieued? But who can withhold himselfe from speaking?

1611 marginal noteHebr. a word.

1611 marginal noteHeb. who can refraine from words?

¶ Call now, if there be any that wil answere thee, and to which of the Saints wilt thou turne?

1611 marginal noteOr, looke.

Now therefore be content, looke vpon mee, for it is euident vnto you, if I lie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. before your face.

If thy children haue sinned against him, and he haue cast them away for their transgression:

1611 marginal noteHeb. in the hand of their transgression

If thou wouldest seeke vnto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almightie:

1611 marginal noteChap. 22.23.

If thou wert pure and vpright, surely now he would awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousnes prosperous.

If he destroy him from his place, then it shal denie him, saying, I haue not seene thee.