⁵ Let all the haters of Zion be shamed and turned back.

¹³ And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

⁶ In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.

³ And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

¹⁴ And the angel who was talking to me said to me, Let your voice be loud and say, These are the words of the Lord of armies: I am greatly moved about the fate of Jerusalem and of Zion.

¹⁵ And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.

¹⁶ So this is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Jerusalem with mercies; my house is to be put up in her, says the Lord of armies, and a line is to be stretched out over Jerusalem.

¹⁷ And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.

¹¹ And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.

³⁵ For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.

²⁸ But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

²⁹ Because your wrath against me and your pride have come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

²² This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.

¹² For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes.

⁶ O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well.

⁴ They have said, Come, let us put an end to them as a nation; so that the name of Israel may go out of man's memory.

⁵ For they have all come to an agreement; they are all joined together against you:

⁶ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites; Moab and the Hagarites;

⁷ Gebal and Ammon and Amalek; the Philistines and the people of Tyre;

⁸ Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)

⁹ Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:

¹⁰ Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.

¹¹ Make their chiefs like Oreb and Zeeb; and all their rulers like Zebah and Zalmunna:

¹³ Let those who say evil against my soul be overcome and put to shame; let my haters be made low and have no honour.

⁵ So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.

²² If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).