Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden dread terrifies you;

If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not prevail against him but shall be thrown down and fall before him.

So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

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

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.

His own iniquities shall capture the wicked, and he shall be held with the cords of his sin.

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare; but the righteous shouts and rejoices.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah: I will therefore spread My net over you with a company of many people, and they will draw you up in My net.

Moreover he must have a good testimony with those who are outside, that he not fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

But those who purpose to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts which plunge people into ruin and destruction.

and that they may come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will.