And he showed them his wealth, and the glory with which the king had invested him, and how he had caused him to take precedence and bear chief rule in the kingdom.

You shall not bow down to them, nor serve them; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, recompensing the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation to them that hate Me,

Let [one] drive him from light into darkness.

He shall not be known among his people, nor his house preserved on the earth.

This is the portion of an ungodly man from the Lord, and the possession of oppressors shall come upon them from the Almighty.

And they that survive of him shall utterly perish, and no one shall pity their widows.

You shall destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from [among] the sons of men.

Let him have no helper; neither let there be anyone to have compassion on his fatherless children.

Let his children be [given up] to utter destruction; in one generation let his name be blotted out.

And after this King Artaxerxes highly honored Haman, [son] of Hammedatha, the Bugaean, and exalted him, and set his seat above all his friends.

For both I and my people have been sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; [both] we and our children as bondmen and bondwomen. And I consented not to it, for the slanderer [is] not worthy of the king's palace.

And Esther said, the adversary [is] Haman, this wicked man. Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen.

For with a secret hand the Lord wages war upon Amalek to all generations.

And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth [day] of Adar, and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.

And the rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth [day] of Adar, but took no spoil.

In it he charged them to use their [own] laws in every city, and to help each other, and to treat their adversaries, and those who attacked them, as they pleased,

that I will not take from all your goods, from a string to a sandal strap, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich.

Repay no one evil for evil; providing that which is good before all men.

Finally, brothers, as many things as are true, as many as are honorable, as many as are just, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely--if there is any virtue and if there is any praise--meditate on these things.