¹¹ So Haman got^(A) the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”

¹² Afterward Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered^(B) in grief, ¹³ and told Zeresh^(C) his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.

His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall^(D) has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”^(E)