²⁵ “In that day,^(A)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg^(B) driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.^(C)

²³ I will drive him like a peg^(A) into a firm place;^(B) he will become a seat^[a] of honor^(C) for the house of his father.

²⁴ For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,^(A) the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur^(B) (that is, the lot^(C)) for their ruin and destruction.^{(D) 25} But when the plot came to the king’s attention,^[a] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head,^(E) and that he and his sons should be impaled^(F) on poles.^(G)

¹⁷ I will send famine and wild beasts^(A) against you, and they will leave you childless. Plague and bloodshed^(B) will sweep through you, and I will bring the sword against you. I the Lord have spoken.^(C)”

¹⁵ You will be a reproach^(A) and a taunt, a warning^(B) and an object of horror to the nations around you when I inflict punishment on you in anger and in wrath and with stinging rebuke.^(C) I the Lord have spoken.^(D)

¹³ “Then my anger will cease and my wrath^(A) against them will subside, and I will be avenged.^(B) And when I have spent my wrath on them, they will know that I the Lord have spoken in my zeal.^(C)

⁵ This is what the Lord says: