Esther 7
1 Le roi et Aman entrèrent pour boire avec la reine.
So the king and Haman came in, to banquet with Esther the queen.
2 Et, à ce second festin, le roi dit à Esther: Qu'y a-t-il, reine Esther? Quelle est ta requête, quelle est ta demande? Qu'il te soit accordé jusqu'à la moitié de mon royaume.
Then said the king unto Esther, on the second day also, during the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, Queen Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what is thy request—unto the half of the kingdom—that it may be performed?
3 Et elle répondit: Si j'ai trouvé grâce devant le roi, qu'il accorde à ma requête, ma vie, et à ma demande, mon peuple.
Then answered Esther the queen, and said, If I have found favour in thine eyes, O king, and if, unto the king, it seem good, let my life be granted me, as my petition, and my people, as my request;
4 Car moi et mon peuple nous sommes voués à la destruction, au pillage, à l'esclavage, nous et nos enfants, nos serviteurs et nos servantes. Mais je n'y ai point cru, parce que l'accusateur n'est pas digne du palais du roi.
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain and to be caused to perish. If indeed, for bondmen and for bondwomen, we had been sold, I had held my peace, although the adversary could not have made good the damage to the king.
5 Et le roi: Qui donc est celui qui a osé faire cette clause?
Then spake King Ahasuerus, and said unto Esther the queen, —Who is he now, and where is he, whose heart is set to act thus?
6 Et Esther dit: Notre ennemi c'est Aman, ce méchant homme. Or, Aman était plein de trouble à cause du roi et de la reine.
And Esther said, A man who is an adversary and enemy, this wicked Haman. And, Haman, was terrified, before the king and the queen.
7 Et le roi se leva de table pour aller dans le jardin, et Aman implora la reine; car il se voyait dans le malheur.
Now, the king, arising in his wrath from the banquet of wine, and going into the palace garden, Haman, stood to make request for his life from Esther the queen, for he saw that ruin, was determined against him, by the king.
8 Et le roi rentra du jardin, et Aman était tombé sur le lit en suppliant la reine, et le roi s'écria: Va-t-il jusqu'à faire violence à ma femme dans mon palais? À ces mots, Aman eut le visage bouleversé.
When, the king, returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine, Haman, was lying prostrate upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he, even dare to force the queen, while I am in the house? No sooner had the word gone forth out of the mouth of the king, than, the face of Haman, they had covered.
9 Et Bugathan, l'un des eunuques, dit au roi: Aman a préparé pour Mardochée, qui a jadis averti le roi, une potence de cinquante coudées; elle est dressée dans sa maison. Et le roi dit: Qu'on l'y attache.
Then said Harbonah—one of the eunuchs before the king—Yea lo! the gallows that Haman made ready for Mordecai, who had spoken well for the king, is standing in Haman’s house, of a height of fifty cubits. Then said the king, Hang him thereon.
10 Et Aman fut pendu à la potence qu'il tenait prête pour Mardochée, et la colère du roi s'apaisa.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, —and, the wrath of the king, was appeased.
