< Esther 6 >

1 On that night the sleep of the king has fled away, and he commands to bring in the scroll of memorials of the chronicles, and they are read before the king,
那一夜,君王因失眠,便命人取大事錄,即年鑑來,在他面前誦讀。
2 and it is found written that Mordecai had declared concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs of the king, of the keepers of the threshold, who sought to put forth a hand on King Ahasuerus.
書上這樣記載:摩爾德開如何告發了君王的兩個守門太監彼革堂和特勒士,企圖殺害薛西斯王的事。
3 And the king says, “What honor and greatness has been done to Mordecai for this?” And the servants of the king, his ministers, say, “Nothing has been done with him.”
王問說:「摩爾德開為這事得到什尊榮和地位﹖」服侍他的僕答說:「他什麼也沒有得到。」
4 And the king says, “Who [is] in the court?” And Haman has come into the outer court of the house of the king, to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him.
正當君王探聽摩爾德開的賢德時,恰巧哈曼在庭院裏,於是王問說:「是誰在庭院裏﹖」原來哈曼正走到了王宮的外庭,要請求君王把摩爾德開懸在他豎起的刑架上。
5 And the servants of the king say to him, “Behold, Haman is standing in the court”; and the king says, “Let him come in.”
王的僕役答應說:「是哈曼站在庭院裏。」王說:「叫他進來! 」
6 And Haman comes in, and the king says to him, “What should [I] do with the man in whose honor the king has delighted?” And Haman says in his heart, “To whom does the king delight to do honor more than myself?”
哈曼進來,王對他說:「假如君王要顯耀一個人,應該怎樣對待他﹖」哈曼心想:除我以外,君王還能顯耀誰呢﹖
7 And Haman says to the king, “The man in whose honor the king has delighted,
於是哈曼對君王說:「大王對願顯耀的人,
8 let them bring in royal clothing that the king has put on himself, and a horse on which the king has ridden, and that the royal crown be put on his head,
應拿出大王穿的龍袍和大王騎的頭戴「御馬冠」的駿馬;
9 and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have clothed the man in whose honor the king has delighted, and caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city, and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose honor the king has delighted.”
將龍袍和駿馬交給大王的一個大臣,叫他給大王所要顯耀的人穿上,領他騎著御馬在城中的廣場遊行,還要有人走在他前面喊道:看,凡皇上願意顯耀的人,就是這樣的待他。」
10 And the king says to Haman, “Hurry, take the clothing and the horse, as you have spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting in the gate of the king; there does not fall a thing of all that you have spoken.”
王對哈曼說:「趕快拿龍袍和駿馬來,就照你所說的,去對待坐在御門旁的那猶太人摩爾德開罷! 凡你所說的,一點也不可忽略! 」
11 And Haman takes the clothing, and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and causes him to ride in a broad place of the city, and calls before him, “Thus it is done to the man in whose glory the king has delighted.”
哈曼就拿了龍袍和駿馬來,先給摩爾德開穿上龍袍,然後扶他騎上駿馬,領他在市內的廣場遊行,還走在他前面喊道:「凡皇上願意顯耀的人,就是這樣的待他。」
12 And Mordecai turns back to the gate of the king, and Haman has been hurried to his house mourning, and with covered head,
事後,摩爾德開回到御門,哈曼卻趕快回了家,蒙著頭飲泣。
13 and Haman recounts to his wife Zeresh, and to all his friends, all that has met him, and his wise men and his wife Zeresh say to him, “If Mordecai [is] of the seed of the Jews, before whom you have begun to fall, you are not able for him, but certainly fall before him.”
哈曼將所遭遇的,都給他的愛妻則勒士和朋友述說了。他的謀士和愛妻則勒士對他說:「在摩爾德開前,你既開始失敗,如果他真是猶太人,你決不能得勝他,終必敗於他前。」
14 They are yet speaking with him, and eunuchs of the king have come, and hurry to bring in Haman to the banquet that Esther has made.
他們正同他談論時,王的太監來催哈曼赴艾斯德爾設的盛宴。

< Esther 6 >