6And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.


In Context

3 Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.

4 For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.

5 And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?

6 And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.

7 But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.

8 And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.

Esther 7:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy [is] this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:6Esther said, "The adversary and enemy is this vile Haman." Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6Esther said, |An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!| Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther saith, 'The man — adversary and enemy — is this wicked Haman;' and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.