But when Esther came before the king, he issued a decree causing Haman’s evil plot to backfire, and Haman and his sons were impaled on a sharpened pole.

这事报告于王，王便降旨使哈曼谋害犹大人的恶事归到他自己的头上，并吩咐把他和他的众子都挂在木架上。

但这阴谋到了王面前，王却降旨使哈曼谋害犹太人的恶事归到他自己的头上，他和他的众子都被挂在木架上。

但这阴谋到了王面前，王却降旨使哈曼谋害犹太人的恶事归到他自己的头上，他和他的众子都被挂在木架上。

但王知道这阴谋后，便降旨使哈曼谋害犹太人的恶计落到他自己头上，将他及其众子吊在木架上。

但这事呈到王面前以后，王使用文书降旨吩咐，使哈曼计谋的恶事，就是他设谋陷害犹大人的事归到他自己的头上，又使人把他和他的众子挂在木架上。

然而，这事呈到了王的面前，王就用诏书下令，使哈曼的计策，就是他针对犹太人所谋划的恶事归到他自己的头上，王又让人把他和他的儿子们挂在木架上。

這事報告於王，王便降旨使哈曼謀害猶大人的惡事歸到他自己的頭上，並吩咐把他和他的眾子都掛在木架上。

但這陰謀到了王面前，王卻降旨使哈曼謀害猶太人的惡事歸到他自己的頭上，他和他的眾子都被掛在木架上。

但這陰謀到了王面前，王卻降旨使哈曼謀害猶太人的惡事歸到他自己的頭上，他和他的眾子都被掛在木架上。

但王知道這陰謀後，便降旨使哈曼謀害猶太人的惡計落到他自己頭上，將他及其眾子吊在木架上。

但這事呈到王面前以後，王使用文書降旨吩咐，使哈曼計謀的惡事，就是他設謀陷害猶大人的事歸到他自己的頭上，又使人把他和他的眾子掛在木架上。

但這事報到王面前時，王便用詔書吩咐，使哈曼所計畫的惡事、就是他所計謀要害猶大人的、歸到他自己頭上，又使人把他和他的眾子掛在示眾木上。

然而，這事呈到了王的面前，王就用詔書下令，使哈曼的計策，就是他針對猶太人所謀劃的惡事歸到他自己的頭上，王又讓人把他和他的兒子們掛在木架上。

其事為王所知、王則頒詔、使哈曼謀害猶大人之惡計、歸於其首、父子俱懸於木、

惟后覲王、蒙王頒詔、以欲害猶大人之事、歸於哈曼、父子俱懸於木。

惟后至王前哀告、王降詔以哈曼謀害猶大人之惡、歸於其首、又命將哈曼及其眾子懸於木、

But when the plot came to the king’s attention, he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be impaled on poles.

But the king had found out about Haman’s evil plan. So the king had sent out written orders. He had ordered that Haman’s evil plan against the Jews should happen to him instead. The king also commanded that poles be stuck through the dead bodies of Haman and his sons. Then they should be set up where everyone could see them.

But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

But when it came to the king’s attention, he commanded by letter that his wicked scheme which he had devised against the Jews was to return on his own head, and that he and his sons were to be hanged on the wooden gallows.

but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But when the matter was brought before the king, he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

But when[ Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king gave written orders that Haman’s evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows.

but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

The trouble they make for others backfires on them. The violence they plan falls on their own heads.

Esther responded,“ If it please the king, give the Jews in Susa permission to do again tomorrow as they have done today, and let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be impaled on a pole.”So the king agreed, and the decree was announced in Susa. And they impaled the bodies of Haman’s ten sons.

Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone it falls on.”

Let my enemies be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me.

He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don’t you bless him.Cursing is as natural to him as his clothing, or the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape.

“ Who would do such a thing?” King Xerxes demanded.“ Who would be so presumptuous as to touch you?”Esther replied,“ This wicked Haman is our adversary and our enemy.” Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden. Haman, however, stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that the king intended to kill him.In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king was returning from the palace garden. The king exclaimed,“ Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?” And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman’s face, signaling his doom.Then Harbona, one of the king’s eunuchs, said,“ Haman has set up a sharpened pole that stands seventy five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to impale Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.”“ Then impale Haman on it!” the king ordered.So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.On that same day King Xerxes gave the property of Haman, the enemy of the Jews, to Queen Esther. Then Mordecai was brought before the king, for Esther had told the king how they were related.The king took off his signet ring— which he had taken back from Haman— and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai to be in charge of Haman’s property.Then Esther went again before the king, falling down at his feet and begging him with tears to stop the evil plot devised by Haman the Agagite against the Jews.Again the king held out the gold scepter to Esther. So she rose and stood before him.Esther said,“ If it please the king, and if I have found favor with him, and if he thinks it is right, and if I am pleasing to him, let there be a decree that reverses the orders of Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, who ordered that Jews throughout all the king’s provinces should be destroyed.For how can I endure to see my people and my family slaughtered and destroyed?”Then King Xerxes said to Queen Esther and Mordecai the Jew,“ I have given Esther the property of Haman, and he has been impaled on a pole because he tried to destroy the Jews.Now go ahead and send a message to the Jews in the king’s name, telling them whatever you want, and seal it with the king’s signet ring. But remember that whatever has already been written in the king’s name and sealed with his signet ring can never be revoked.”So on June 25 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Mordecai dictated. It was sent to the Jews and to the highest officers, the governors, and the nobles of all the 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia. The decree was written in the scripts and languages of all the peoples of the empire, including that of the Jews.The decree was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the king’s signet ring. Mordecai sent the dispatches by swift messengers, who rode fast horses especially bred for the king’s service.The king’s decree gave the Jews in every city authority to unite to defend their lives. They were allowed to kill, slaughter, and annihilate anyone of any nationality or province who might attack them or their children and wives, and to take the property of their enemies.The day chosen for this event throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was March 7 of the next year.A copy of this decree was to be issued as law in every province and proclaimed to all peoples, so that the Jews would be ready to take revenge on their enemies on the appointed day.So urged on by the king’s command, the messengers rode out swiftly on fast horses bred for the king’s service. The same decree was also proclaimed in the fortress of Susa.