¹¹ So Haman procured the robe and the horse. He put the robe on Mordecai and had him ride through the city streets, proclaiming, “This is what is done for the man the king wants to reward.”

¹² Afterward, Mordecai went back to the king’s gate. Haman, however, hurried home, with his head covered^[a] in grief ¹³ and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends what had befallen him.

His friends and his wife, Zeresh, told him, “If Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of the Jewish race, you will not be able to overcome him but will surely suffer defeat, because the living God is with him.”