< Esther 6 >

1 On that night sleep fled from the king. And he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
その夜王ねむること能はざりければ命じて日々の事を記せる記録の書を持きたらしめ王の前にこれを読しめけるに
2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, keepers of the threshold, who had sought to lay hand on king Ahasuerus.
モルデカイ曾て王の侍從の二人戸を守る者なるビグタンとテレシがアハシユエロス王を殺さんと謀れるを告たりと記せるに遇ふ
3 And the king said, What honour and dignity has been done to Mordecai for this? And the king's servants that attended upon him said, Nothing has been done for him.
王すなはち言けるは之がために何の榮誉と爵位をモルデカイにあたへしや 王に事ふる臣僕等こたへて何をも彼にあたへしこと無しといへり
4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
ここにおいて王誰ぞ庭にあるやと問ふ この時ハマンは己がモルデカイのために設けたる木にモルデカイを懸ることを王に奏せんとして已に王の家の外庭に來りて居る
5 And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman is standing in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
王の臣僕等王につげてハマン庭に立をると言ければ王かれをして入來らしめよと言ふ
6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done with the man whom the king delights to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to me?
ハマンやがて入きたりしに王かれにいひけるは王の尊とばんと欲する人には如何になさば善らんかとマン心におもひけるは王の尊ばんとずる者は我にあらずして誰ぞやと
7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honour,
ハマンすなはち王にいひけるは王の尊ばんと欲する人のためには
8 let the royal apparel be brought with which the king arrays himself, and the horse that the king rides upon, and on the head of which the royal crown is set;
王の着たまへる衣服を携さへ來らしめかつ王の乗たまへる馬即ちその頭に王の冠冕を戴ける馬をひき來らしめ
9 and let the apparel and horse be delivered into the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, and let them array the man whom the king delights to honour, and cause him to ride on the horse through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!
これを王の最も貴とき一人の牧伯の手にわたし王の尊ばんとする人に其衣服を衣せしめこれを馬にのせて邑の街衢をみちびき通り 王の尊とばんと欲する人には是のごとくなすべしと呼はらしむべし
10 And the king said to Haman, Make haste, take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast said.
王ハマンに言けるは急ぎなんぢが言しごとくその衣服と馬とを取り王の門に坐するユダヤ人モルデカイに斯なせよ なんぢが言しところを一も欠こと無らしめよ
11 And Haman took the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!
ここにおいてハマン衣服と馬とを取りモルデカイにその衣服を着せ彼をして邑の街衢を乗とほらしめその前に呼はりて云ふ王の尊ばんと欲する人には是のごとくなすべしと
12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
かくてモルデカイは王の門にかへりたりしがハマンは愁へなやみ首をおほふておのれの家にはしりゆき
13 And Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and to all his friends all that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife to him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but wilt certainly fall before him.
しかしてハマンおのが邁る事をことごとくその妻ゼレシとその朋友等に告げるにその智者等およびその妻ゼレシかれに言けるは 彼のモルデカイすなはちなんぢがその前に敗れはじめたる者もしユダヤ人ならば汝これに勝ことを得じ必らずその前にやぶれんと
14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's chamberlains came, and hasted to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
かれら尚ハマンとものいひをる間に王の侍從きたりてハマンをうながしエステルが設けたる酒宴にのぞましむ

< Esther 6 >