For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks on its mesh.
The nations have sunk in the pit that they made; in the net that they hid, their own foot has been caught.
Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden terror overwhelms you,
Let destruction come upon him when he does not know it! And let the net that he hid ensnare him; let him fall into it—to his destruction!
and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
Moreover, he must be well thought of by outsiders, so that he may not fall into disgrace, into a snare of the devil.
Thus says the Lord God: I will throw my net over you with a host of many peoples, and they will haul you up in my dragnet.
An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.
Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has dared to do this?”
And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.”
If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.”
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