¹⁸ And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

¹⁰ So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

¹⁴ That man is a worker of evil; the seed of wrongdoing has given birth to deceit.

¹⁵ He has made a hole deep in the earth, and is falling into the hole which he has made

¹⁶ His wrongdoing will come back to him, and his violent behaviour will come down on his head.

¹⁶ The Lord has given knowledge of himself through his judging: the evil-doer is taken in the net which his hands had made. (Higgaion. Selah.)

²³ But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

²² The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

²³ He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.

¹⁷ Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.

¹⁸ But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.

¹⁷ One who has been the cause of a man's death will go in flight to the underworld: let no man give him help.

⁴ Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

⁵ And he put down the silver in the Temple and went out, and put himself to death by hanging.