Esther 7:3-6 ▼

3 And Esther the queen answered and said, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if upon the king it is good, let my soul be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;

4 for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be exterminated. And if for menservants and for maidservants we had been sold, I would have kept silent, for the adversary is not equal in the damage of the king.”

5 And King Ahasuerus spoke and he said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, this one? And where is this one—he who has filled his heart to do thus?”

6 And Esther said, “A man, an adversary, and enemy is this, the evil Haman.” And Haman was terrified from before the faces of the king and the queen.