1 Toe die koning en Haman inkom om saam met koningin Ester die feesmaal te hou,

2 sê die koning aan Ester ook op die tweede dag, terwyl hulle wyn drink: Wat is jou bede, koningin Ester? -- dit sal jou toegestaan word. En wat is jou versoek? Al was dit die helfte van die koninkryk -- daaraan sal voldoen word.

3 En koningin Ester antwoord en sê: As ek genade in u oë gevind het, o koning, en as die koning dit goedvind, laat my lewe my geskenk word op my bede en my volk op my versoek.

4 Want ons is verkoop, ek en my volk, om verdelg, gedood en uitgeroei te word. Was ons nog as slawe en slavinne verkoop, dan sou ek geswyg het, maar hierdie ramp sal onder die verliese van die koning sy weerga nie hê nie.

5 Toe spreek koning Ahasv,ros en sê aan koningin Ester: Wie is hy, en waar is hy wie se hart hom ingegee het om so te maak?

6 En Ester sê: Die teëstander en vyand is hierdie slegte Haman! Toe skrik Haman voor die koning en die koningin.

7 En die koning het in sy woede van die wynmaaltyd opgestaan en na die tuin van die paleis gegaan, terwyl Haman daar bly staan om van koningin Ester die behoud van sy lewe af te smeek; want hy het gesien dat die onheil oor hom by die koning vas besluit was.

8 Toe die koning uit die tuin van die paleis in die saal van die wynmaaltyd terugkom, en Haman juis op die rusbank neergeval het waar Ester op sit, sê die koning: Wil hy die koningin ook nog geweld aandoen by my in die huis? Die woord was nouliks uit die mond van die koning of hulle het die gesig van Haman bedek.

9 Daarop sê Harbona, een van die hofdienaars voor die koning: Daar staan reeds die galg wat Haman laat maak het vir Mordegai wat ten voordele van die koning gespreek het, by die huis van Haman, vyftig el hoog! Toe sê die koning: Hang hom daaraan op!

10 En hulle het Haman opgehang aan die galg wat hy vir Mordegai opgerig het, en die woede van die koning het bedaar.

1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. 2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed. 3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request: 4 for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s damage. 5 Then spake the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so? 6 And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 7 And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he even force the queen before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face. 9 Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. And the king said, Hang him thereon. 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.