the renown of Moab is no more.
In (A)Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
    ‘Come, let us cut her off (B)from being a nation!’
You also, O (C)Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
    the sword shall pursue you.

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They (A)said to themselves, “We will utterly subdue them”;
    they burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

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But he disdained[a] to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy[b] all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:6 Hebrew disdained in his eyes
  2. Esther 3:6 Or annihilate

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