Esther 7:6 CPDV

⁴  For I and my people have been handed over to be crushed, to be slain, and to perish. And if we were only being sold as servants and slaves, the evil might be tolerable, and I would have mourned in silence. But now our enemy is one whose cruelty overflows upon the king.'

⁵  And king Artaxerxes answered and said, 'Who is this, and of what power, that he would dare to do these things?'

⁶  And Esther said, 'This is our most wicked enemy and foe: Haman!' Hearing this, Haman was suddenly dumbfounded, unable to bear the faces of the king and the queen.

⁷  But the king, being angry, rose up and, from the place of the feast, entered into the arboretum of the garden. Haman likewise rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his soul, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.

⁸  When the king returned from the arboretum of the garden and entered into the place of the feast, he found Haman collapsed on the couch on which Esther lay, and he said, 'And now he wishes to oppress the queen, in my presence, in my house!' The word had not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.