2On this second day, at the banquet of wine, the king said to Esther again, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done, even if it is half of the kingdom."
3Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favour in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request."
4"For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to perish. If we had only been sold as slaves, men and women, I would have kept quiet, although the enemy could not make up for the king's loss."
5Then king Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he, who dared to plan in his heart to do such a thing?"
6Esther said, "The foe and enemy is this wicked Haman." Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7The king got up from the banquet of wine in his anger and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to beg queen Esther for his life, for he saw that the king had decided to bring evil on him.
8Then the king came back from the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine. Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he force the queen too, here in the house with me?" As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.