7:1So the king and Haman went in, to drink with the queen. 7:2And the king said to her on the second day also, after he had grown warm with wine: "What is your petition, Esther, that it may be given to you? 7:2And what do you wish to be done? 7:2Even if you ask for half of my kingdom, you will obtain it." 7:3To him she answered: "If I have found favour in your eyes, O king, and if it pleases you, give me my life, for which I ask, and my people, for whom I beg. 7:4For we have been handed over, I and my people, to be crushed, slaughtered, and to perish.
7:4And would that we were being sold as slaves and handmaids: it would be a bearable evil, and groaning I would be silent: but now it is our enemy, whose cruelty overflows onto the king." 7:5And King Ahasuerus, answering, said: "Who is this, and of what power, that he dares to do these things?" 7:6And Esther said: "Our enemy and worst foe is this Haman." 7:6Hearing this, he was at once stunned, not enduring to bear the face of the king and queen. 7:7But the king, angered, rose, and from the place of the banquet went into the garden planted with trees. 7:7Haman also rose to beg Queen Esther for his life: for he understood that evil had been prepared for him by the king.
7:8And when he had returned from the garden planted with groves, and had entered the place of the banquet, he found that Haman had fallen upon the couch on which Esther was lying, and he said: "He wants to assault even the queen, with me present, in my own house!" 7:8Not yet had the word gone out from the king's mouth, and at once they covered his face. 7:9And Harbona, one of the eunuchs who stood in the service of the king, said: "Look, the wood which he had prepared for Mordecai, who spoke for the king, stands in Haman's house, having fifty cubits of height." 7:9The king said to him: "Hang him on it."
7:10So Haman was hanged on the gibbet which he had prepared for Mordecai: and the king's anger grew quiet.