Estera 9
1 Trinaestoga dana dvanaestog mjeseca, mjeseca Adara, kad je morala biti izvršena odredba kraljevog ukaza, istoga dana u koji su se neprijatelji Židova nadali zavladati nad njima dogodi se obrnuto: Židovi zavladaše nad neprijateljima svojim.
For in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.
2 Židovi se sakupiše po svojim gradovima u svim pokrajinama kralja Ahasvera da udare na one koji su tražili njihovu propast. I nitko se nije usuđivao da im pruži otpor, jer je sve narode spopao strah od Židova.
In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.
3 Svi su knezovi pokrajina i namjesnici, upravljači i činovnici kraljevi štitili Židove jer ih je obuzeo strah od Mordokaja.
For the chiefs of the satraps, and the princes and the royal scribes, honoured the Jews; for the fear of Mardochæus lay upon them.
4 Jer je Mordokaj postao velik na kraljevskom dvoru, i po svim pokrajinama širio se glas da Mordokaj postaje sve moćniji.
For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
5 Židovi, dakle, udariše mačem po svim svojim neprijateljima, sasjekoše ih i zatrše; sa svojim mrziteljima postupiše kako im se htjelo.
6 Samo u tvrđavi Suzi smakoše i zatrše Židovi pet stotina ljudi;
And in the city Susa the Jews slew five hundred men:
7 pogubiše Paršandatu, Dalfona, Aspatu,
both Pharsannes, and Delphon and Phasga,
8 Poratu, Adaliju, Aridatu,
and Pharadatha, and Barea, and Sarbaca,
9 Parmaštu, Arisaja, Aridaja, Jezatu
and Marmasima, and Ruphæus, and Arsæus, and Zabuthæus,
10 i deset sinova Hamana, sina Hamdatina, progonitelja Židova. Ali se ne pojagmiše za plijenom.
the ten sons of Aman the son of Amadathes the Bugæan, the enemy of the Jews, and they plundered [their property] on the same day:
11 Toga istog dana, doznavši za broj ubijenih u tvrđavi Suzi,
and the number of them that perished in Susa was rendered to the king.
12 kralj reče kraljici Esteri: "U tvrđavi Suzi Židovi su smaknuli i uništili pet stotina ljudi i deset Hamanovih sinova. Što su tek onda izveli u ostalim pokrajinama kraljevim? Koja je sada molba tvoja? Bit će uslišana! Koja je tvoja želja? Bit će ispunjena!"
And the king said to Esther, The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa; and how, thinkest thou, have they used them in the rest of the country? What then dost thou yet ask, that it may be [done] for thee?
13 "Ako je kralju po volji," reče Estera, "neka se Židovima koji žive u Suzi dopusti još sutra primijeniti isti zakon kao i danas i neka se objesi deset Hamanovih sinova."
And Esther said to the king, Let it be granted to the Jews so to treat them to-morrow as to hang the ten sons of Aman.
14 Kralj naredi da se tako učini: zakon bi u Suzi proglašen i deset Hamanovih sinova obješeno.
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 Tako se Židovi Suze sakupiše i četrnaestoga dana mjeseca Adara pa pobiše u Suzi još tri stotine ljudi. Ali se ni tada ne pojagmiše za plijenom.
And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth [day] of Adar, and slew three hundred men, but plundered no property.
16 Ostali Židovi, oni koji su živjeli u kraljevskim pokrajinama, sakupiše se da brane svoje živote i mir od neprijatelja: pobiše sedamdeset i pet tisuća dušmana. Ali se ni tada ne pojagmiše za plijenom. Bio je trinaesti dan mjeseca Adara.
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 Četrnaestoga dana Židovi su mirovali: to bijaše dan gozbe i veselja.
And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
18 Židovi u Suzi koji su se sakupili trinaestoga i četrnaestoga dana mirovahu petnaestoga dana; to je bio dan njihova veselja i gozbi.
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 Zbog toga Židovi pripoljci, oni koji žive po neutvrđenim selima, blagdanski svetkuju četrnaesti dan mjeseca Adara veseleći se i gozbujući i među sobom izmjenjujući darove. a A koji žive u gradovima slave i petnaesti dan Adara u razdraganosti i u veselju, izmjenjujući među sobom darove.
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 Mordokaj opisa te događaje i upravi pisma Židovima svih blizih i dalekih pokrajina kralja Ahasvera.
And Mardochæus 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 Naložio im je da četrnaesti i petnaesti dan mjeseca Adara svake godine slave
to establish these [as] joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
22 kao dane u kojima su Židovi postigli spokoj od svojih neprijatelja i kao mjesec koji je bio pretvorio u radost njihovu tugu a u blagdan njihovo žalovanje. Neka ih slave gozbom i veseljem, izmjenjujući među sobom darove i dijeleći poklone ubogima.
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 Židovi prihvatiše da drže ono što su već sami od sebe počeli slaviti i o čemu im je pisao Mordokaj:
And the Jews consented [to this] accordingly as Mardochæus wrote to them,
24 "Haman, sin Hamdatin, Agađanin, progonitelj svih Židova, kako je bio naumio sve ih uništiti, baci 'Pur', to jest ždrijeb, za njihovo smaknuće i zator;
[shewing] how Aman the son of Amadathes the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;
25 ali kad je za njegovu zamisao doznao kralj, on pismeno naredi: 'Neka se na njegovu glavu obori opaki naum što ga bijaše zasnovao protiv Židova i neka bude obješen, on i sinovi njegovi.'"
also how he went in to the king, telling [him] to hang Mardochæus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.
26 Zbog toga su ti dani nazvani Purim, prema riječi Pur. Zato prema svem sadržaju toga pisma i prema onome što su vidjeli i što im bijaše preneseno
Therefore these days were called Phruræ, because of the lots; (for in their language they are called Phruræ; ) because of the words of this letter, and [because of] all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.
27 Židovi se neopozivo obvezaše i prihvatiše za se, za svoje potomke i za sve one koji se s njima budu udružili da će svake godine slaviti ta dva dana prema tom propisu i u to vrijeme.
And [Mardochæus] 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 Te dane valja slaviti i njih se sjećati od pokoljenja do pokoljenja u svakoj obitelji, pokrajini i gradu; ti dani Purima ne smiju iščeznuti ispred Židova, ni spomen na njih biti izbrisan iz njihova roda.
And these days of the Phruræ, [said they], shall be kept for ever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.
29 Kraljica Estera, kći Abihailova, i Židov Mordokaj pisali su to što snažnije da tako još jednom potkrijepe pismo o Purimu.
And queen Esther, the daughter of Aminadab, and Mardochæus the Jew, wrote all that they had done, and the confirmation of the letter of Phruræ.
30 Pisma su poslali svim Židovima u sto dvadeset i sedam pokrajina Ahasverova kraljevstva s porukom mira i vjernosti;
31 da obdržavaju te dane Purima u njihovo određeno vrijeme, kako su to odredili Židov Mordokaj i kraljica Estera, i da drže post i molitve, onako kako su to oni obvezali sebe i svoje potomke.
And Mardochæus and Esther the queen appointed [a fast] for themselves privately, even at that time also having formed their plan against their own health.
32 Tako Esterina naredba ozakoni ove propise Purima i to bi zapisano u knjigu.
And Esther established it by a command for ever, and it was written for a memorial.
