¹⁸ And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

¹⁰ And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.

¹⁴ Lo, he travaileth `with' iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.

¹⁵ A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

¹⁶ Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.

¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

²³ And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

¹⁷ `Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'

¹⁸ And he hath not known that Rephaim `are' there, In deep places of Sheol her invited ones!

¹⁷ A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

⁴ `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'

⁵ and having cast down the silverlings in the sanctuary, he departed, and having gone away, he did strangle himself.