¹² Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hastened home, mourning, ^(A)with his head covered. ¹³ And Haman recounted ^(B)to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.”

¹⁴ While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs reached Haman’s home and hastily ^(C)brought Haman to the feast which Esther had prepared.