Matthew 20:13Open English Bible (Commonwealth)

Esther 4:13

he sent back this reply to Esther, ‘Don’t imagine that you alone of all the Jews will escape because you belong to the king’s household.

Esther 5:10

Nevertheless Haman restrained himself and went home. He called together his friends and Zeresh his wife

Esther 5:14

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, ‘Let a gallows seventy-five feet high be erected, and in the morning speak to the king and let Mordecai be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.’ The advice pleased Haman, and so he had the gallows erected.

Esther 6:13

Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, ‘If Mordecai before whom you have already been humiliated is of the Jewish people, you can do nothing against him but will surely fall before him.’

Psalms 7:4

if friends I paid back with evil, if I plundered my foes without cause,