Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Ester was. Then the king said, *Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?* As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!*
He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house.
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.