< Esther 7 >
1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
王帶着哈曼來赴王后以斯帖的筵席。
2 And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, queen Esther, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'
這第二次在酒席筵前,王又問以斯帖說:「王后以斯帖啊,你要甚麼,我必賜給你;你求甚麼,就是國的一半也必為你成就。」
3 Then Esther the queen answered and said: 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request;
王后以斯帖回答說:「我若在王眼前蒙恩,王若以為美,我所願的,是願王將我的性命賜給我;我所求的,是求王將我的本族賜給我。
4 for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'
因我和我的本族被賣了,要剪除殺戮滅絕我們。我們若被賣為奴為婢,我也閉口不言;但王的損失,敵人萬不能補足。」
5 Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen: 'Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?'
亞哈隨魯王問王后以斯帖說:「擅敢起意如此行的是誰?這人在哪裏呢?」
6 And Esther said: 'An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman.' Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
以斯帖說:「仇人敵人就是這惡人哈曼!」 哈曼在王和王后面前就甚驚惶。
7 And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman remained to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
王便大怒,起來離開酒席往御園去了。哈曼見王定意要加罪與他,就起來,求王后以斯帖救命。
8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king: 'Will he even force the queen before me in the house?' As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
王從御園回到酒席之處,見哈曼伏在以斯帖所靠的榻上;王說:「他竟敢在宮內、在我面前凌辱王后嗎?」這話一出王口,人就蒙了哈曼的臉。
9 Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king: 'Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.' And the king said: 'Hang him thereon.'
伺候王的一個太監名叫哈波拿,說:「哈曼為那救王有功的末底改做了五丈高的木架,現今立在哈曼家裏。」王說:「把哈曼掛在其上。」
10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath assuaged.
於是人將哈曼掛在他為末底改所預備的木架上。王的忿怒這才止息。