And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Therefore rejoice, O heavens, and you who dwell in them! But woe to the earth and the sea; with great fury the devil has