Esther 9
1 For in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.
| وَفِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ الثَّانِي عَشَرَ، (آذَارَ – مَارِسَ)، حِينَ آنَ أَوَانُ تَنْفِيذِ أَمْرِ الْمَلِكِ وَحُكْمِهِ، وَهُوَ الْيَوْمُ الَّذِي كَانَ فِيهِ أَعْدَاءُ الْيَهُودِ يَرْجُونَ التَّسَلُّطَ عَلَيْهِمِ، انْقَلَبَ المَوْقِفُ ضِدَّهُمْ، فَتَسَلَّطَ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى أَعْدَائِهِمْ. | ١ |
2 In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.
| وَتَجَمَّعَ الْيَهُودُ فِي مُدُنِهِمْ فِي كُلِّ أَرْجَاءِ دِيَارِ الْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ لِيُدَافِعُوا عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ ضِدَّ السَّاعِينَ لإِيذَائِهِمْ، فَلَمْ يَجْرُؤْ أَحَدٌ عَلَى مُجَابَهَتِهِمْ لأَنَّ الرُّعْبَ مِنْهُمْ هَيْمَنَ عَلَى جَمِيعِ الأُمَمِ، | ٢ |
3 For the chiefs of the satraps, and the princes and the royal scribes, honoured the Jews; for the fear of Mardochaeus lay upon them.
| وَقَامَ رُؤَسَاءُ الأَقَالِيمِ وَالْحُكَّامُ وَالْوُلاةُ وَوُكَلاءُ الْمَلِكِ بِمُسَاعَدَةِ الْيَهُودِ خَوْفاً مِنْ مُرْدَخَايَ، | ٣ |
4 For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
| لأَنَّهُ أَصْبَحَ يَتَمَتَّعُ بِنُفُوذٍ عَظِيمٍ فِي قَصْرِ الْمَلِكِ، وَذَاعَ صِيتُهُ فِي كُلِّ الأَقَالِيمِ، بَعْدَ أَنْ تَزَايَدَتْ شُهْرَتُهُ وَعَظَمَتُهُ. | ٤ |
| وَقَهَرَ الْيَهُودُ جَمِيعَ أَعْدَائِهِمْ وَقَتَلُوهُمْ بِالسَّيْفِ وَأَهْلَكُوهُمْ، وَفَعَلُوا بِهِمْ مَا شَاءُوا، | ٥ |
6 And in the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men:
| فَأَبَادُوا فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ خَمْسَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ. | ٦ |
7 both Pharsannes, and Delphon and Phasga,
| كَمَا قَتَلُوا فَرْشَنْدَاثَا وَدَلْفُونَ وَأَسْفَاثَا، | ٧ |
8 and Pharadatha, and Barea, and Sarbaca,
| وَفُورَاثَا وَأَدَلْيَا وَأَرِيدَاثَا، | ٨ |
9 and Marmasima, and Ruphaeus, and Arsaeus, and Zabuthaeus,
| وَفَرْمَشْتَا وَأَرِيسَايَ وَأَرِيدَايَ وَيِزَاثَا، | ٩ |
10 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:
| وَهُمْ عَشَرَةُ أَبْنَاءٍ لِهَامَانَ بْنِ هَمَداثَا عَدُوِّ الْيَهُودِ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُقْدِمُوا إِطْلاقاً عَلَى النَّهْبِ. | ١٠ |
11 and the number of them that perished in Susa was rendered to the king.
| فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ رُفِعَ تَقْرِيرٌ بِعَدَدِ الْقَتْلَى فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ إِلَى الْمَلِكِ، | ١١ |
12 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?
| فَقَالَ الْمَلِكُ لأَسْتِيرَ الْمَلِكَةِ: «إنْ كَانَ الْيَهُودُ قَدْ قَتَلُوا فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ وَحْدَهَا خَمْسَ مِئَةِ رِجُلٍ، فَضْلاً عَنْ أَبْنَاءِ هَامَانَ الْعَشَرَةِ، فَكَمْ قَتَلُوا فِي بَاقِي أَقَالِيمِ الْمَلِكِ؟ وَالآنَ مَا هُوَ سُؤْلُكِ فَأُلَبِّيَهُ، وَمَا هِيَ طِلْبَتُكِ فَأَقْضِيَهَا لَكِ؟» | ١٢ |
13 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.
| فَأَجَابَتْ: «إِنْ طَابَ لِلْمَلِكِ فَلْيُؤْذَنْ لِلْيَهُودِ فِي شُوشَنَ الْعَاصِمَةِ أَنْ يَفْعَلُوا غَداً مَا فَعَلُوهُ الْيَوْمَ وَيَصْلِبُوا أَبْنَاءَ هَامَانَ الْعَشَرَةَ عَلَى خَشَبَةٍ». | ١٣ |
14 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.
| فَأَمَرَ الْمَلِكُ بِتَنْفِيذِ الطَّلَبِ، وَأَصْدَرَ مَرْسُوماً بِذَلِكَ فِي شُوشَنَ الْعَاصِمَةِ، وَصَلَبُوا أَبْنَاءَ هَامَانَ الْعَشَرَةَ. | ١٤ |
15 And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth [day] of Adar, and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.
| ثُمَّ اجْتَمَعَ الْيَهُودُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي الْعَاصِمَةِ شُوشَنَ فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ أَيْضاً مِنْ شَهْرِ آذَارَ، وَقَتَلُوا ثَلاثَ مِئَةِ رَجُلٍ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُقْدِمُوا عَلَى النَّهْبِ. | ١٥ |
16 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.
| كَمَا تَآزَرَ الْيَهُودُ الْبَاقُونَ الْمُنْتَشِرُونَ فِي أَقَالِيمِ الْمَلِكِ وَدَافَعُوا عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ وَاسْتَرَاحُوا مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ، بَعْدَ أَنْ قَتَلُوا خَمْسَةً وَسَبْعِينَ أَلْفاً مِنْهُمْ، وَلَكِنَّهُمْ لَمْ يُقْدِمُوا عَلَى النَّهْبِ. | ١٦ |
17 And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.
| حَدَثَ هَذَا فِي الْيَوْمِ الثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ آذَارَ، وَاسْتَرَاحُوا فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ، حَيْثُ احْتَفَلُوا فِيهِ شَارِبِينَ فَرِحِينَ. | ١٧ |
18 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.
| أَمَّا يَهُودُ شُوشَنَ الْعَاصِمَةِ فَقَدِ اجْتَمَعُوا لِلدِّفَاعِ عَنْ أَنْفُسِهِمْ فِي الْيَوْمَيْنِ الثَّالِثَ عَشَرَ وَالرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْهُ، ثُمَّ اسْتَرَاحُوا فِي الْيَوْمِ الْخَامِسِ عَشَرَ، حَيْثُ احْتَفَلُوا فِيهِ شَارِبينَ فَرِحِينَ. | ١٨ |
19 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.
| لِهَذَا يَحْتَفِلُ الْيَهُودُ الْمُقِيمُونَ فِي مُدُنِ الْمَنَاطِقِ الرِّيفِيَّةِ بِالْيَوْمِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ مِنْ آذَارَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، فَيُقِيمُونَ الْوَلائِمَ وَيَبْتَهِجُونَ وَيَتَبَادَلُونَ الْهَدَايَا. | ١٩ |
20 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,
| وَدَوَّنَ مُرْدَخَايُ هَذِهِ الأَحْدَاثَ، وَبَعَثَ بِرَسَائِلَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْيَهُودِ الْقَرِيبِينَ مِنْهُ وَالْبَعِيدِينَ، الْمُنْتَشِرِينَ فِي كُلِّ أَنْحَاءِ مَمْلَكَةِ فَارِسَ، | ٢٠ |
21 to establish these [as] joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
| يَحُثُّهُمْ عَلَى الاحْتِفَالِ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ فِي الْيَوْمَيْنِ الرَّابِعَ عَشَرَ وَالْخَامِسَ عَشَرَ مِنْ شَهْرِ آذَارَ. | ٢١ |
22 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.
| وَهُمَا الْيَوْمَانِ اللَّذَانِ اسْتَراحَ فِيهِمَا الْيَهُودُ مِنْ أَعْدَائِهِمْ، وَهُوَ الشَّهْرُ الَّذِي تَحَوَّلَ عِنْدَهُمْ مِنْ شَهْرِ حُزْنٍ إِلَى شَهْرِ فَرَحٍ، وَمِنْ نُوَاحٍ إِلَى احْتِفَالٍ، فَيَجْعَلُونَهُمَا يَوْمَيْ شُرْبٍ وَفَرَحٍ وَتَبَادُلِ هَدَايَا وَإِحْسَانٍ إِلَى الْفُقَرَاءِ. | ٢٢ |
23 And the Jews consented [to this] accordingly as Mardochaeus wrote to them,
| فَقَبِلَ الْيَهُودُ مَا عَرَضَهُ عَلَيْهِمْ مُرْدَخَايُ، وَاسْتَمَرُّوا يَحْتَفِلُونَ بِذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ فِي كُلِّ سَنَةٍ، | ٢٣ |
24 [showing] how Aman the son of Amadathes the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;
| تَذْكَاراً لِمُؤَامَرَةِ هَامَانَ بْنِ هَمَدَاثَا الأَجَاجِيِّ عَدُوِّ الْيَهُودِ، الَّذِي سَعَى لإِبَادَتِهِمْ، وَأَلْقَى الْقُرْعَةَ، أَيْ الْفُورَ لإِفْنَائِهِمْ وَإِهْلاكِهِمْ. | ٢٤ |
25 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.
| وَلَكِنْ حَالَمَا لَفَتَتْ أَسْتِيرُ انْتِبَاهَ الْمَلِكِ إِلَى الْمُؤَامَرَةِ أَصْدَرَ مَرْسُوماً ارْتَدَّ فِيهِ كَيْدُ هَامَانَ الَّذِي كَادَهُ لِلْيَهُودِ عَلَى رَأْسِهِ، وَتَمَّ صَلْبُهُ مَعَ أَبْنَائِهِ عَلَى خَشَبَةٍ. | ٢٥ |
26 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.
| لِهَذَا دُعِيَ هَذَانِ الْيَوْمَانِ فُورِيمَ عَلَى اسْمِ «الْفُورِ» مِنْ أَجْلِ مَا وَرَدَ فِي هَذِهِ الرِّسَالَةِ وَمِنْ جَرَّاءِ مَا شَاهَدُوهُ مِنْ ذَلِكَ وَمَا أَحْدَقَ بِهِمْ مِنْ خَطَرٍ، | ٢٦ |
27 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.
| وَوَافَقَ الْيَهُودُ عَلَى مُمَارَسَةِ هَذَا الاحْتِفَالِ فِي حَيَاتِهِمْ، وَإِحْيَائِهِ فِي ذُرِّيَّتِهِمْ وَفِي جَمِيعِ الْمُلْتَصِقِينَ بِهِمْ، لِيَظَلَّ تَذْكَاراً لَا يَزُولُ، فَيُعَيِّدُوا هَذَيْنِ الْيَوْمَيْنِ وَفْقاً لِمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ وَفِي مَوْعِدِهُمَا الْمُحَدَّدِ مِنْ كُلِّ سَنَةٍ. | ٢٧ |
28 And these days of the Phrurae, [said they, ]shall be kept for ever, and their memorial shall not fail in any generation.
| وَهَكَذَا يَخْلُدُ هَذَانِ الْيَوْمَانِ وَيُحْتَفَلُ بِهِمَا مِنْ جِيلٍ إِلَى جِيلٍ، فِي كُلِّ عَشِيرَةٍ وَفِي كُلِّ إِقْلِيمٍ وَمَدِينَةٍ عَلَى مَرِّ الأَيَّامِ، فَلا يَزُولُ ذِكْرُهُمَا مِنْ بَيْنِ الْيَهُودِ وَلا يَفْنَى مِنْ ذُرِّيَّتِهِمْ. | ٢٨ |
29 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.
| ثُمَّ كَتَبَتِ الْمَلِكَةُ أَسْتِيرُ ابْنَةُ أَبِيحَائِلَ وَمُرْدَخَايُ الْيَهُودِيُّ بِكُلِّ سُلْطَانٍ رِسَالَةً ثَانِيَةً إِثْبَاتاً لِرِسَالَةِ الْفُورِيمِ، | ٢٩ |
| وَبَعَثَتِ الرَّسَائِلَ إِلَى جَمِيعِ الْيَهُودِ الْمُقِيمِينَ فِي أَقَالِيمِ الْمَلِكِ أَحَشْوِيرُوشَ الْمِئَةِ وَالسَّبْعِ وَالْعِشْرِينَ، مُحَمَّلَةً بِالسَّلامِ وَالصِّدْقِ، | ٣٠ |
31 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.
| وَفِيهَا حَضٌّ عَلَى الاحْتِفَالِ بِهَذَيْنِ الْيَوْمَيْنِ فِي مَوْعِدَيْهِمَا الْمُقَرَّرَيْنِ، كَمَا أَوْجَبَ عَلَيْهِمْ مُرْدَخَايُ الْيَهُودِيُّ وَالْمَلِكَةُ أَسْتِيرُ، وَكَمَا تَعَهَّدُوا هُمْ وَأَلْزَمُوا نَسْلَهُمْ بِمَوَاعِيدِ الصَّوْمِ وَالنُّوَاحِ، | ٣١ |
32 And Esther established it by a command for ever, and it was written for a memorial.
| فَأَوْجَبَ أَمْرُ أَسْتِيرَ مُمَارَسَةَ هَذِهِ الْمَرَاسِيمِ، وَتَمَّ تَدْوِينُهَا فِي دَرْجٍ. | ٣٢ |
