Every bad man stirs up strife, but the Lord will send out against him an unmerciful messenger.

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai; and then the king's wrath was appeased.

He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.

His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken.

The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

While the ungodly one acts proudly, the poor is hotly pursued; [the wicked] are taken in the crafty counsels which they imagine.

They have prepared snares for my feet, and have bowed down my soul; they have dug a pit before my face, and fallen into it [themselves]. Pause.