以斯帖記 6
1 那一夜，君王因失眠，便命人取大事錄，即年鑑來，在他面前誦讀。
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
2 書上這樣記載：摩爾德開如何告發了君王的兩個守門太監彼革堂和特勒士，企圖殺害薛西斯王的事。
And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
3 王問說：「摩爾德開為這事得到什尊榮和地位﹖」服侍他的僕答說：「他什麼也沒有得到。」
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
4 正當君王探聽摩爾德開的賢德時，恰巧哈曼在庭院裏，於是王問說：「是誰在庭院裏﹖」原來哈曼正走到了王宮的外庭，要請求君王把摩爾德開懸在他豎起的刑架上。
“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
5 王的僕役答應說：「是哈曼站在庭院裏。」王說：「叫他進來! 」
So the king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” ordered the king.
6 哈曼進來，王對他說：「假如君王要顯耀一個人，應該怎樣對待他﹖」哈曼心想：除我以外，君王還能顯耀誰呢﹖
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
7 於是哈曼對君王說：「大王對願顯耀的人，
And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
8 應拿出大王穿的龍袍和大王騎的頭戴「御馬冠」的駿馬；
have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head.
9 將龍袍和駿馬交給大王的一個大臣，叫他給大王所要顯耀的人穿上，領他騎著御馬在城中的廣場遊行，還要有人走在他前面喊道：看，凡皇上願意顯耀的人，就是這樣的待他。」
Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”
10 王對哈曼說：「趕快拿龍袍和駿馬來，就照你所說的，去對待坐在御門旁的那猶太人摩爾德開罷! 凡你所說的，一點也不可忽略! 」
“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
11 哈曼就拿了龍袍和駿馬來，先給摩爾德開穿上龍袍，然後扶他騎上駿馬，領他在市內的廣場遊行，還走在他前面喊道：「凡皇上願意顯耀的人，就是這樣的待他。」
So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!”
12 事後，摩爾德開回到御門，哈曼卻趕快回了家，蒙著頭飲泣。
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.
13 哈曼將所遭遇的，都給他的愛妻則勒士和朋友述說了。他的謀士和愛妻則勒士對他說：「在摩爾德開前，你既開始失敗，如果他真是猶太人，你決不能得勝他，終必敗於他前。」
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
14 他們正同他談論時，王的太監來催哈曼赴艾斯德爾設的盛宴。
While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
