KJV:
Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
NASB:
"Did not your fathers do the same, so that our God brought on us and on this city all this trouble? Yet you are adding to the wrath on Israel by profaning the sabbath."
KJV:
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
NASB:
He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had no father or mother. Now the young lady was beautiful of form and face, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
KJV:
For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
NASB:
"For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?"
KJV:
For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
NASB:
"Please inquire of past generations, And consider the things searched out by their fathers.
KJV:
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
NASB:
"Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
KJV:
Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
NASB:
What wise men have told, And have not concealed from their fathers,
KJV:
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
NASB:
If I call to the pit, 'You are my father'; To the worm, 'my mother and my sister';