Esther 5

1 And it cometh to pass on the third day, that Esther putteth on royalty, and standeth in the inner-court of the house of the king over-against the house of the king, and the king is sitting on his royal throne, in the royal-house, over-against the opening of the house,

第三日にエステル后の服を着王の家の内庭にいり王の家にむかひて立つ王は王宮玉座に坐して王宮の戸口にむかひをりしが

2 and it cometh to pass, at the king's seeing Esther the queen standing in the court, she hath received grace in his eyes, and the king holdeth out to Esther the golden sceptre that [is] in his hand, and Esther draweth near, and toucheth the top of the sceptre.

王后エステルが庭にたちをるを見てこれに恩をくはへ其手にある金圭をエステルの方に伸しければエステルすすみよりてその圭の頭にさはれり

3 And the king saith to her, 'What — to thee Esther, O queen? and what thy request? unto the half of the kingdom — and it is given to thee.'

王かれに言けるは后エステルなんぢ何をもとむるやなんぢの願意は何なるや國の半分にいたるとも汝にあたふべし

4 And Esther saith, 'If unto the king [it be] good, the king doth come in, and Haman, to-day, unto the banquet that I have made for him;'

エステルいひけるは王もし善としたまはば願くは今日わが王のために設けたる酒宴に王とハマンと臨みたまへ

5 and the king saith, 'Haste ye Haman — to do the word of Esther;' and the king cometh in, and Haman, unto the banquet that Esther hath made.

ここに於て王ハマンを急がしめてエステルの言るごとくならしめよと命じ王とハマンやがてエステルが設けたる酒宴に臨めり

6 And the king saith to Esther, during the banquet of wine, 'What [is] thy petition? and it is given to thee; and what thy request? unto the half of the kingdom — and it is done.'

酒宴の時王またエステルに言けるは汝の所求は何なるやかならずゆるさるべし なんぢの願意は何なるや固の半分にいたるとも成就らるべし

7 And Esther answereth and saith, 'My petition and my request [is]:

エステル言けるは我が所求わが願意は是なり

8 if I have found grace in the eyes of the king, and if unto the king [it be] good, to give my petition, and to perform my request, the king doth come, and Haman, unto the banquet that I make for them, and to-morrow I do according to the word of the king.'

われもし王の目の前に恩を得 王もしわが所求をゆるしわが願意を成就しむることを善としたまはば願くは玉とハマンまたわが設けんとする酒宴に臨みたまへ われ明日王の宜まへる言にしたがはん

9 And Haman goeth forth on that day rejoicing and glad in heart, and at Haman's seeing Mordecai in the gate of the king, and he hath not risen nor moved for him, then is Haman full of fury against Mordecai.

かくてハマンはその日よろこび心たのしみて出きたりけるがハマン、モルデカイが王の門に居て己にむかひて起もあがらず身動もせざるを見しかば 痛くモルデカイを怒れり

10 And Haman forceth himself, and cometh in unto his house, and sendeth, and bringeth in his friends, and Zeresh his wife,

されどもハマン耐忍びて家にかへりその朋友等および妻ゼレシをまねき來らしめ

11 and Haman recounteth to them the glory of his wealth, and the abundance of his sons, and all that with which the king made him great, and with which he lifted him up above the heads and servants of the king.

而してハマンその富の榮耀とその子の衆多ことと凡て王の己を貴とびし事また己をたかくして王の牧伯および臣僕の上にあらしむることを之に語れり

12 And Haman saith, 'Yea, Esther the queen brought none in with the king, unto the feast that she made, except myself, and also for to-morrow I am called to her, with the king,

しかしてハマンまた言けらく后エステル酒宴を設けたりしが我のほかは何人をも王とともに之に臨ましめず明日もまた我は玉とともに后に招かれをるなり

13 and all this is not profitable to me, during all the time that I am seeing Mordecai the Jew sitting in the gate of the king.'

然れどユダヤ人モルデカイが王の門に坐しをるを見る間は是らの事も快樂からず

14 And Zeresh his wife saith to him, and all his friends, 'Let them prepare a tree, in height fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and they hang Mordecai on it, and go thou in with the king unto the banquet rejoicing;' and the thing is good before Haman, and he prepareth the tree.

時にその妻ゼレシとその一切の朋友かれに言けるは請ふ高五十キユビトの木を立しめ明日の朝モルデカイをその上に懸んことを王に奏せ而して王とともに樂しみてその酒宴におもむけとハマンこの事を善としてその木を立しめたり