And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.

The adversary.

1 Samuel 24:13 As also it is said in the old proverb: From the wicked shall wickedness come forth: therefore my hand shall not be upon thee. After whom dost thou come out, O king of Israel?

Psalm 27:2 Whilst the wicked draw near against me, to eat my flesh. My enemies that trouble me, have themselves been weakened, and have fallen.

Psalm 139:19-22 If thou wilt kill the wicked, O God: ye men of blood, depart from me: . . .

Proverbs 24:24,25 They that say to the wicked man: Thou art just: shall be cursed by the people, and the tribes shall abhor them. . . .

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

1 Corinthians 5:13 For them that are without, God will judge. Put away the evil one from among yourselves.

2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then that wicked one shall be revealed: whom the Lord Jesus shall kill with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: him

was afraid.

Nehemiah 6:16 And it came to pass when all our enemies heard of it, that all nations which were round about us, were afraid, and were cast down within themselves, for they perceived that this work was the work of God.

Job 15:21,22 The sound of dread is always in his ears: and when there is peace, he always suspecteth treason. . . .

Job 18:5-12 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine? . . .

Psalm 73:5-9,17-20 They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men. . . .

Proverbs 16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: and the wise man will pacify it.

Isaiah 21:4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Daniel 5:5,6 In the same hour there appeared fingers, as it were of the hand of a man, writing over against the candlestick, upon the surface of the wall of the king's palace: and the king beheld the joints of the hand that wrote. . . .

before.