On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven officials who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

While they were still talking with him, the king's officials came, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three officials looked down at him.

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet. And these words were good to Haman; so he had the gallows made.

Terrors overtake him like waters; a tempest steals him away in the night.

It casts him out without pity; he hastens to flee from its hand.

He has excavated a cistern and dug it, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

His trouble shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own crown.

Let destruction come upon him before he knows it, and let his net which he has concealed catch him; let him fall into that very destruction.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass on in one piece.

The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but traitors shall be taken in their lust.

In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's officials, Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

And when an inquiry was made into the matter, it was confirmed, and both were hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officials, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this evil plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Therefore David ran and stood over the Philistine, took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their strong man was dead, they fled.

He has excavated a cistern and dug it, and has fallen into the pit which he made.

His trouble shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own crown.

The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made; their own foot is caught in the net which they hid.

Jehovah is known. He has executed judgment; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.

Let destruction come upon him before he knows it, and let his net which he has concealed catch him; let him fall into that very destruction.

I have seen the wicked, ruthless, and spreading himself like a luxuriant native tree.

Yet he passed away, and lo, he was no more; indeed, I sought for him, but he could not be found.

How have they been brought to desolation, as in a moment! They are fully brought to an end with destruction,

The righteousness of the perfect shall make his way right, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but traitors shall be taken in their lust.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the prefects, and the satraps, the officials and the governors, have planned together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except from you, O king, shall be thrown into the den of lions.

And the king commanded, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel. And they threw them into the den of lions, them, their sons and their wives. And the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones before they ever reached the bottom of the den.