Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
May the heads of those who surround me be covered in the trouble their lips have caused.
But God will shoot them with arrows; suddenly they will be wounded.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
The righteous man is delivered from trouble; in his place the wicked man goes in.
He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.