11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, and dressed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “So it shall be done for the man whom the king desires to honor.”

12 Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, while Haman hurried home, mourning, (A)with his head covered. 13 And Haman informed (B)Zeresh his wife and all his friends of everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is [a]of Jewish origin, you will not prevail over him, but will certainly fall before him.”

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 6:13 Lit from the seed of the Jews

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