Esther 5:8-10

Living Bible

^7-8 Esther replied, “My request, my deepest wish, is that if Your Majesty loves me and wants to grant my request, that you come again with Haman tomorrow to the banquet I shall prepare for you. And tomorrow I will explain what this is all about.”

⁹ What a happy man was Haman as he left the banquet! But when he saw Mordecai there at the gate, not standing up or trembling before him, he was furious. ¹⁰ However, he restrained himself, went on home, and gathered together his friends and Zeresh, his wife,