Esther 6
1 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,
On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
2 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.
It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Achashyerosh.
3 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.
The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."
4 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.
The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
5 Les serviteurs répondirent: C’est Aman qui est dans le vestibule. Le roi reprit: Qu’il entre.
The king's servants said to him, "Look, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."
6 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,
So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?"
7 Répondit: Un homme que le roi désire honorer
Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
8 Doit être revêtu des vêtements royaux, et être placé sur un cheval que le roi monte, et recevoir un diadème royal sur sa tête,
let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set.
9 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.
And let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble officials, and let him clothe the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.'"
10 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.
Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the King's Gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken."
11 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.
Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."
12 Et Mardochée revint à la porte du palais; et Aman se hâta d’aller en sa maison, triste, et la tête couverte.
Mordecai came back to the King's Gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
13 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.
Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."
14 Ceux-ci parlant encore, les eunuques du roi vinrent et le forcèrent à se rendre aussitôt au festin que la reine avait préparé.
While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
