Esther 7:4-6

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁴ For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace; but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.’^{[a] 5} Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, ‘Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?’ ⁶ Esther said, ‘A foe and enemy, this wicked Haman!’ Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.