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,
Le roi passa cette nuit sans dormir, et il commanda qu’on lui apportât les histoires et les annales des temps antérieurs. Et comme on les lisait, lui présent,
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.
On vint à cet endroit où était écrit de quelle manière Mardochée avait dénoncé les emhûches de Bagathan et de Tharès, eunuques qui avaient voulu égorger le roi Assuérus.
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.”
Ce que le roi ayant entendu, il demanda: Quel honneur et quelle récompense Mardochée a-t-il obtenus pour cette fidélité? Ses serviteurs et ses ministres répondirent: Il n’a reçu absolument aucune récompense.
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.
Et aussitôt le roi: Qui est, dit-il, dans le vestibule? Or Aman était entré dans le vestibule intérieur de la maison du roi, pour lui conseiller de commander que Mardochée fût attaché à la potence qui lui avait été préparée.
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.”
Les serviteurs répondirent: C’est Aman qui est dans le vestibule. Le roi reprit: Qu’il entre.
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?”
Et lorsqu’il fut entré, le roi lui demanda: Que doit-on faire à l’homme que le roi désire honorer? Or Aman, pensant en son cœur et s’imaginant que le roi ne voulait point honorer un autre que lui,
7 And Haman says to the king, “The man in whose honor the king has delighted,
Répondit: Un homme que le roi désire honorer
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,
Doit être revêtu des vêtements royaux, et être placé sur un cheval que le roi monte, et recevoir un diadème royal sur sa tête,
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.”
Et que le premier des princes royaux des grands de la cour tienne son cheval, et que, marchant par la place de la ville, il crie et dise: Ainsi sera honoré celui que le roi voudra honorer.
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.”
Or le roi lui dit: Hâte-toi, prends la robe et le cheval, et fais comme tu as dit à Mardochée, le Juif qui est assis devant la porte du palais. Prends bien garde de ne rien omettre de ce que tu as dit.
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.”
C’est pourquoi Aman prit la robe et le cheval, et, en ayant revêtu Mardochée dans la place de la ville, et l’ayant mis à cheval, il le précédait et criait: Il est digne de cet honneur, celui que le roi veut honorer.
12 And Mordecai turns back to the gate of the king, and Haman has been hurried to his house mourning, and with covered head,
Et Mardochée revint à la porte du palais; et Aman se hâta d’aller en sa maison, triste, et la tête couverte.
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.”
Or il raconta à Zarès, sa femme, et à ses amis tout ce qui était arrivé. Les sages dont il prenait conseil, et sa femme, lui répondirent: Si c’est de la race des Juifs qu’est Mardochée devant lequel tu as commencé à déchoir, tu ne pourras lui résister, mais tu tomberas devant lui.
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.
Ceux-ci parlant encore, les eunuques du roi vinrent et le forcèrent à se rendre aussitôt au festin que la reine avait préparé.
