KJV:
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
NASB:
Esther said, "A foe and an enemy is this wicked Haman!" Then Haman became terrified before the king and queen.
KJV:
The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
NASB:
A copy of the edict to be issued as law in each and every province was published to all the peoples, so that the Jews would be ready for this day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
KJV:
Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
NASB:
Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king's command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.
KJV:
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
NASB:
Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.
KJV:
But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,
NASB:
Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces assembled, to defend their lives and rid themselves of their enemies, and kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
KJV:
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
NASB:
because on those days the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and it was a month which was turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and rejoicing and sending portions of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
KJV:
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
NASB:
"Why do You hide Your face And consider me Your enemy?
KJV:
Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against me as the unrighteous.
NASB:
"May my enemy be as the wicked And my opponent as the unjust.