Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
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- KJV And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
- BSB Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
- NKJV And Esther said, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
- NASB And Esther said, “A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.
- NLT Esther replied, “This wicked Haman is our adversary and our enemy.” Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.
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- Job 18:5–12“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
- Ps 139:19–22If only you, God, would kill the wicked. Get away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
- 2 Th 2:8Then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will kill with the breath of his mouth, and destroy by the manifestation of his coming;
- 1 Cor 5:13But those who are outside, God judges. “Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.”
- 1 Sam 24:13As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.
- Neh 6:16When all our enemies heard of it, all the nations that were around us were afraid, and they lost their confidence; for they perceived that this work was done by our God.
- Esth 3:10The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
- Job 15:21–22A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come on him.
- Ps 27:2When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
- Ps 73:5–9They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.
- Ps 73:17–20Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.
- Prov 24:24–25He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous”; peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him —
- Prov 16:14The king’s wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.
- Isa 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
- Dan 5:5–6In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
- Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
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