Esther 7:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ Indeed, I and my people have been sold to be annihilated, killed, and destroyed. If we had just been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because the trouble wouldn’t have been sufficient to bother the king.”^[a]

⁵ Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the person who would dare^[b] do this?”

⁶ Esther replied, “An adversary and an enemy—it’s this wicked Haman!” So Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.