Esther 9
1 Therefore, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which as we have said before is called Adar, when all the Jews were prepared to be executed and their enemies were greedy for their blood, the situation turned around, and the Jews began to have the upper hand and to vindicate themselves of their adversaries.
Akhirnya tibalah tanggal tiga belas bulan Adar, yaitu hari yang ditetapkan untuk pelaksanaan perintah raja atas orang-orang Yahudi. Hari itu telah dinantikan oleh musuh-musuh bangsa Yahudi untuk menguasai bangsa itu. Tetapi ternyata orang Yahudilah yang mengalahkan mereka.
2 And they gathered together throughout each city, and town, and place, so as to extend their hands against their enemies and their persecutors. And no one dared to resist them, because their great power had pierced all the peoples.
Di setiap kota, orang-orang Yahudi berkumpul dan bersatu untuk menyerang semua orang yang berniat jahat terhadap mereka. Bangsa-bangsa di mana saja menjadi ketakutan kepada mereka sehingga tak seorang pun berani menghadapi mereka.
3 For even the judges of the provinces, and the rulers, and the procurators, and everyone of dignity, who presided over every place and work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mordecai.
Malahan semua pembesar provinsi, para gubernur, bupati dan pejabat kerajaan menyokong orang Yahudi karena semuanya takut kepada Mordekhai.
4 For they knew him to be the leader of the palace and to have much power. Likewise, the fame of his name increased daily and flew everywhere through word of mouth.
Di seluruh kerajaan orang tahu bahwa Mordekhai sangat berpengaruh di istana dan semakin berkuasa pula.
5 And so the Jews struck their enemies like a great plague and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them,
Demikianlah bangsa Yahudi dapat berbuat semaunya dengan musuh mereka, mereka menyerang dengan pedang lalu membunuhnya.
6 so much so that even in Susa they executed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Haman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, and their names are these:
Di Susan, ibukota negara, orang Yahudi membunuh lima ratus orang.
7 Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha
Di antaranya terdapat kesepuluh anak laki-laki Haman anak Hamedata, musuh besar orang Yahudi. Mereka itu adalah: Parsandata, Dalfon, Aspata, Porata, Adalya, Aridata, Parmasta, Arisai, Aridai dan Waizata. Tetapi orang Yahudi tidak melakukan perampokan.
8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha.
10 When they had slain them, they were unwilling to touch the spoils of their belongings.
11 And immediately the number of those who had been killed in Susa was reported to the king.
Pada hari itu juga orang melaporkan kepada raja jumlah orang-orang yang terbunuh di Susan.
12 He said to the queen, “In the city of Susa, the Jews have executed five hundred men, and also the ten sons of Haman. How many executions do you think that they have carried out in all the provinces? What more do you ask, and what do you wish, so that I may order it to be done?”
Kata baginda kepada Ratu Ester, "Di Susan saja orang Yahudi telah membunuh 500 orang, termasuk kesepuluh anak Haman. Apalagi di provinsi-provinsi! Entahlah apa yang mereka lakukan di sana! Nah, apa lagi yang kauminta sekarang? Katakan saja, engkau pasti akan mendapatnya!"
13 And she answered, “If it pleases the king, may power be granted to the Jews, so as to do tomorrow in Susa just as they have done today, and that the ten sons of Haman may be hung up the gallows.”
Ester menjawab, "Kalau Baginda berkenan, hendaknya orang Yahudi yang tinggal di Susan ini besok pagi diizinkan mengulangi lagi apa yang telah dilakukannya pada hari ini. Lagipula, hendaknya mayat anak-anak Haman itu digantung pada tiang-tiang gantungan."
14 And the king instructed that it should be so done. And immediately the edict was hung up in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hung up.
Lalu raja memberi perintah untuk melaksanakan permintaan Ester; surat perintah untuk kota Susan dikeluarkan dan mayat kesepuluh anak Haman digantung.
15 On the fourteenth day of the month Adar, the Jews gathered themselves together, and they executed in Susa three hundred men, but they did not seize their belongings from them.
Jadi pada tanggal empat belas bulan Adar, orang-orang Yahudi di Susan berkumpul kembali dan membunuh 300 orang lagi di kota itu. Dan kali ini juga mereka tidak merampok.
16 Moreover, throughout all the provinces which were subject to the king’s dominion, the Jews made a stand for their lives, and they executed their enemies and their persecutors, so much so that the number of those who were killed amounted to seventy-five thousand, and yet no one touched any of their belongings.
Orang-orang Yahudi yang tinggal di provinsi-provinsi juga telah berkumpul dan membela diri mereka. Mereka mengalahkan musuhnya dan membunuh 75.000 orang yang membenci mereka. Tetapi mereka tidak merampok.
17 Now the thirteenth day of the month Adar was the first day with all of the executions, and on the fourteenth day they ceased the killing. This day they established to be sacred, so that in all times hereafter they would be free for feasting, joyfulness, and celebration.
Peristiwa itu terjadi pada tanggal tiga belas bulan Adar. Hari berikutnya, pada tanggal empat belas, mereka tidak membunuh siapa pun, melainkan merayakan hari itu dengan gembira.
18 But, as for those who were carrying out the killings in the city of Susa, they turned to killing on the thirteenth and fourteenth day of the same month. But on the fifteenth day they ceased to attack. And for that reason they established that day as sacred, with feasting and with gladness.
Tetapi orang Yahudi yang ada di Susan merayakan tanggal lima belas sebagai hari besar, sebab mereka telah membunuh musuh pada tanggal tiga belas dan empat belas, lalu berhenti pada tanggal lima belas.
19 But in truth, those Jews who were staying in unwalled towns and villages, appointed the fourteenth day of the month Adar for celebration and gladness, so as to rejoice on that day and send one another portions of their feasts and their meals.
Itulah sebabnya orang Yahudi yang tinggal di kota-kota kecil memperingati tanggal empat belas bulan Adar sebagai hari yang gembira, hari untuk berpesta ria sambil saling memberi hadiah berupa makanan.
20 And so Mordecai wrote down all these things and sent them, composed in letters, to the Jews who were staying in all the king’s provinces, as much to those in nearby places as to those far away,
Setelah itu Mordekhai mencatat segala kejadian itu dan mengirim surat kepada semua orang Yahudi di seluruh kerajaan Persia, baik yang jauh, maupun yang dekat.
21 so that they would accept the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month Adar for holy days, and always, at the return of the year, would celebrate them with sacred esteem.
Isi surat itu ialah perintah untuk merayakan tanggal empat belas dan lima belas bulan Adar setiap tahun.
22 For on those days, the Jews vindicated themselves of their enemies, and their mourning and sorrow were turned into mirth and joy, so that these would be days of feasting and gladness, in which they would send one another portions of their feasts, and would grant gifts to the poor.
Sebab pada hari-hari itulah mereka telah mengalahkan musuh-musuh mereka, sehingga kesedihan dan kepedihan mereka berubah menjadi kegembiraan dan kebahagiaan. Oleh sebab itu mereka harus merayakan hari-hari itu dengan pesta dan perjamuan serta saling memberi makanan dan membagikan sedekah kepada orang miskin.
23 And the Jews accepted as a solemn ritual all the things which they had begun to do at that time, which Mordecai had commanded with letters to be done.
Orang Yahudi mentaati perintah Mordekhai itu dan demikianlah perayaan itu menjadi adat kebiasaan setiap tahun.
24 For Haman, the son of Hammedatha of Agag lineage, the enemy and adversary of the Jews, had devised evil against them, to kill them and to destroy them. And he had cast Pur, which in our language means the lot.
Haman anak Hamedata, keturunan Agag, musuh besar orang Yahudi, telah membuang undi yang disebut juga "purim" guna menetapkan hari untuk membantai orang Yahudi; ia telah merencanakan untuk memunahkan mereka.
25 And after this, Esther had entered before the king, begging him that his efforts might be made ineffective by the king’s letters, and that the evil he intended against the Jews might return upon his own head. Finally, both he and his sons were fastened to a cross.
Tetapi Ester menghadap raja, dan raja memberi perintah tertulis yang menyebabkan rencana jahat yang dibuat Haman menimpa dirinya sendiri, sehingga ia dan anak-anaknya digantung pada tiang gantungan.
26 And so, from that time, these days are called Purim, that is, of the lots, because Pur, that is, the lot, was cast into the urn. And all things that had been carried out are contained in the volume of this epistle, that is, of this book.
Sebab itu hari-hari besar itu disebut Purim. Surat Mordekhai dan segala yang telah dialami orang Yahudi,
27 And whatever they suffered, and whatever was altered afterwards, the Jews received for themselves and their offspring and for all who were willing to be joined to their religion, so that none would be permitted to transgress the solemnity of these two days, to which the writing testifies, and which certain times require, as the years continually succeed one another.
mengakibatkan mereka membuat suatu peraturan bagi diri mereka sendiri, bagi keturunan mereka dan bagi semua orang yang akan menjadi warga bangsa Yahudi. Menurut peraturan itu setiap tahun mereka wajib merayakan kedua hari yang telah ditetapkan oleh Mordekhai.
28 These are the days which no one ever will erase into oblivion, and which every province in the whole world, throughout each generation, shall celebrate. Neither is there any city wherein the days of Purim, that is, of lots, may not be observed by the Jews, and by their posterity, which has been obligated to these ceremonies.
Ditetapkan juga bahwa untuk selama-lamanya hari-hari Purim itu harus diingat dan dirayakan oleh setiap keluarga Yahudi dari segala angkatan dalam setiap provinsi dan setiap kota.
29 And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, also wrote a second letter, so that with all zealousness this day would be confirmed as customary for future generations.
Di samping itu, bersama-sama dengan surat Mordekhai, Ratu Ester anak Abihail menulis surat kedua, yang memperkuat isi surat Mordekhai mengenai Purim itu.
30 And they sent to all the Jews, who had been stirred up in the one hundred twenty-seven provinces of king Artaxerxes, that they should have peace and receive truth,
Surat itu dikirimkan kepada semua orang Yahudi, dan salinan-salinannya dikirimkan kepada ke-127 provinsi kerajaan Persia. Surat itu disertai doa agar bangsa Yahudi selalu sejahtera dan aman.
31 and observe the days of lots, and celebrate them with joy at their proper time, just as Mordecai and Esther had established. And they accepted these to be observed by themselves and by their offspring: fasting, and crying out, and the days of lots,
Surat itu menganjurkan juga supaya mereka dan keturunan mereka memperingati hari-hari Purim pada waktu yang tepat, sebagaimana mereka memperingati masa puasa dan masa berkabung. Itulah isi surat Mordekhai dan Ratu Ester.
32 and all things which are contained in the history of this book, which is called Esther.
Perintah Ester yang menetapkan peraturan-peraturan Purim, dicatat dalam buku.
