Esther 6:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵ So the king’s servants told him, ‘Haman is there, standing in the court.’ The king said, ‘Let him come in.’ ⁶ So Haman came in, and the king said to him, ‘What shall be done for the man whom the king wishes to honour?’ Haman said to himself, ‘Whom would the king wish to honour more than me?’ ⁷ So Haman said to the king, ‘For the man whom the king wishes to honour,