¹⁷ See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

⁸ Then the king came back from the garden into the room where they had been drinking; and Haman was stretched out on the seat where Esther was. Then the king said, Is he taking the queen by force before my eyes in my house? And while the words were on the king's lips, they put a cloth over Haman's face.

²⁴ The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

³ Their great men have sent their servants for water: they come to the holes and there is no water to be seen; they come back with nothing in their vessels; they are overcome with shame and fear, covering their heads.