以斯帖记 9
1 十二月，乃亚达月十三日，王的谕旨将要举行，就是犹大人的仇敌盼望辖制他们的日子，犹大人反倒辖制恨他们的人。
For in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.
2 犹大人在亚哈随鲁王各省的城里聚集，下手击杀那要害他们的人。无人能敌挡他们，因为各族都惧怕他们。
In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.
3 各省的首领、总督、省长，和办理王事的人，因惧怕末底改，就都帮助犹大人。
For the chiefs of the satraps, and the princes and the royal scribes, honoured the Jews; for the fear of Mardochaeus lay upon them.
4 末底改在朝中为大，名声传遍各省，日渐昌盛。
For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
5 犹大人用刀击杀一切仇敌，任意杀灭恨他们的人。
6 在书珊城，犹大人杀灭了五百人；
And in the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men:
7 又杀巴珊大他、达分、亚斯帕他、
both Pharsannes, and Delphon and Phasga,
8 破拉他、亚大利雅、亚利大他、
and Pharadatha, and Barea, and Sarbaca,
9 帕玛斯他、亚利赛、亚利代、瓦耶撒他；
and Marmasima, and Ruphaeus, and Arsaeus, and Zabuthaeus,
10 这十人都是哈米大他的孙子、犹大人仇敌哈曼的儿子。犹大人却没有下手夺取财物。
the ten sons of Aman the son of Amadathes the Bugaean, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered [their property] on the same day:
11 当日，将书珊城被杀的人数呈在王前。
and the number of them that perished in Susa was rendered to the king.
12 王对王后以斯帖说：“犹大人在书珊城杀灭了五百人，又杀了哈曼的十个儿子，在王的各省不知如何呢？现在你要什么，我必赐给你；你还求什么，也必为你成就。”
And the king said to Esther, The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa; and how, think you, have they used them in the rest of the country? What then do you yet ask, that it may be [done] for you?
13 以斯帖说：“王若以为美，求你准书珊的犹大人，明日也照今日的旨意行，并将哈曼十个儿子的尸首挂在木架上。”
And Esther said to the king, let it be granted to the Jews so to treat them tomorrow as to hand the ten sons of Aman.
14 王便允准如此行。旨意传在书珊，人就把哈曼十个儿子的尸首挂起来了。
And he permitted it to be so done; and he gave up to the Jews of the city the bodies of the sons of Aman to hang.
15 亚达月十四日，书珊的犹大人又聚集在书珊，杀了三百人，却没有下手夺取财物。
And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth [day] of Adar, and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.
16 在王各省其余的犹大人也都聚集保护性命，杀了恨他们的人七万五千，却没有下手夺取财物。这样，就脱离仇敌，得享平安。
And the rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies: for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth [day] of Adar, but took no spoil.
17 亚达月十三日，行了这事；十四日安息，以这日为设筵欢乐的日子。
And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
18 但书珊的犹大人，这十三日、十四日聚集杀戮仇敌；十五日安息，以这日为设筵欢乐的日子。
And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth [day] and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness.
19 所以住无城墙乡村的犹大人，如今都以亚达月十四日为设筵欢乐的吉日，彼此馈送礼物。
On this account then [it is that] the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar [as] a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbour.
20 末底改记录这事，写信与亚哈随鲁王各省远近所有的犹大人，
And Mardochaeus wrote these things in a book, and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Artaxerxes, both them that were near and them that were afar off,
21 嘱咐他们每年守亚达月十四、十五两日，
to establish these [as] joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
22 以这月的两日为犹大人脱离仇敌得平安、转忧为喜、转悲为乐的吉日。在这两日设筵欢乐，彼此馈送礼物，周济穷人。
for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and [as to] the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it [in] good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor.
23 于是，犹大人按着末底改所写与他们的信，应承照初次所守的守为永例；
And the Jews consented [to this] accordingly as Mardochaeus wrote to them,
24 是因犹大人的仇敌亚甲族哈米大他的儿子哈曼设谋杀害犹大人，掣普珥，就是掣签，为要杀尽灭绝他们；
[showing] how Aman the son of Amadathes the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;
25 这事报告于王，王便降旨使哈曼谋害犹大人的恶事归到他自己的头上，并吩咐把他和他的众子都挂在木架上。
also how he went in to the king, telling [him] to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.
26 照着普珥的名字，犹大人就称这两日为“普珥日”。他们因这信上的话，又因所看见所遇见的事，
Therefore these days were called Phrurae, because of the lots; (for in their language they are called Phrurae; ) because of the words of this letter, and [because of] all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.
27 就应承自己与后裔，并归附他们的人，每年按时必守这两日，永远不废。
And [Mardochaeus] established it, and the Jews took upon themselves, and upon their seed, and upon those that were joined to them [to observe it], neither would they on any account behave differently: but these days [were to be] a memorial kept in every generation, and city, and family, and province.
28 各省各城、家家户户、世世代代纪念遵守这两日，使这“普珥日”在犹大人中不可废掉，在他们后裔中也不可忘记。
And these days of the Phrurae, [said they, ]shall be kept for ever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.
29 亚比孩的女儿—王后以斯帖和犹大人末底改以全权写第二封信，坚嘱犹大人守这“普珥日”，
And queen Esther, the daughter of Aminadab, and Mardochaeus the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Phrurae.
30 用和平诚实话写信给亚哈随鲁王国中一百二十七省所有的犹大人，
31 劝他们按时守这“普珥日”，禁食呼求，是照犹大人末底改和王后以斯帖所嘱咐的，也照犹大人为自己与后裔所应承的。
And Mardochaeus and Esther the queen appointed [a fast] for themselves privately, even at that time also having formed their plan against their own health.
32 以斯帖命定守“普珥日”，这事也记录在书上。
And Esther established it by a command for ever, and it was written for a memorial.
