⁸ When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had thrown himself on the couch where Esther was reclining, and the king said, “Will he even violate the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.^(A)

³⁴ they will mock him and spit upon him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise again.”^(A)

⁶⁴ they also blindfolded him and kept asking him, “Prophesy! Who is it who struck you?”