¹¹ Then ^(A)David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and so also did all the men who were with him.

⁸ Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; ^(A)their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not ^[a]comply with the king’s laws, so it is not in the king’s interest to let them remain. ⁹ If it is pleasing to the king, let it be ^[b]decreed that they be eliminated, and I will pay ^[c]ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry out the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.” ¹⁰ Then ^(B)the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha ^(C)the Agagite, ^(D)the enemy of the Jews.

⁵ Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a ^(A)fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. ⁶ When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his robe from himself, ^(B)covered himself with sackcloth, and sat on the ^[a]dust.