Estè 9
1 Alò, nan douzyèm mwa a (sa vle di mwa Adar a), sou trèzyèm jou a, lè lòd a wa a avèk dekrè li a te prèt pou acheve, nan jou lè lènmi a Jwif yo te gen espwa vin mèt sou yo a, li te vin vire tèt anba jiskaske Jwif yo menm te vin domine sou sila ki te rayi yo.
Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over those who hated them.
2 Jwif yo te rasanble nan vil pa yo toupatou nan pwovens a Wa Assuérus yo pou mete men yo sou sila ki te chache fè yo mal yo. Konsa, pa t genyen moun ki te kab kanpe devan yo, paske perèz yo te vin tonbe sou tout moun nan pèp yo.
The Jews gathered together in the cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to attack anyone who tried to harm them. No one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.
3 Menm tout chèf pwovens yo, reprezantan a wa yo, gouvènè yo e sila ki t ap fè afè a wa yo te asiste Jwif yo akoz laperèz a Mardochée te vin tonbe sou yo.
All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
4 Anverite, Mardochée te gran lakay a wa a e repitasyon li te gaye toupatou nan pwovens yo, paske nonm nan, Mardouchée, te vin pi gwo e pi gwo.
For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and as his power increased his fame spread throughout all the provinces.
5 Konsa, Jwif yo te frape tout lènmi yo avèk nepe, te touye e detwi. Yo te fè sa yo te pito a sila ki te rayi yo.
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated them.
6 Nan sitadèl Suse la, Jwif yo te touye e detwi senk-san òm.
In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.
7 Yo te touye Parchandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9 Parmaschtha, Arizaï, Aridaï avèk Vajezatha,
Parmashta, Arisia, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
10 dis fis a Haman yo, fis a Hammedatha yo, lènmi a Jwif yo. Men yo te refize touche piyaj la.
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not take any plunder.
11 Nan menm jou sa a, fòs kantite a sila ki te touye nan sitadèl Suse la te rapòte a wa a.
On that day the number of those who were slain in Susa was brought before the king,
12 Wa a te di a rèn Esther: “Jwif yo te fin touye e detwi senk-san moun avèk fis a Haman yo nan sitadèl Suse la. Alò, konsa se kisa ke yo gen tan fè nan lòt pwovens a wa yo!” Koulye a, se ki petisyon ou? Menm li menm va bay a ou menm. Epi kisa ou mande anplis? Li menm tou va fèt.
and the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done.”
13 Epi Esther te di: “Si sa se plezi a wa a, kite demen, anplis, vin bay a Jwif ki nan Suse yo, pou fè menm ak dekrè ki pou jodi a; epi kite dis fis a Haman yo vin pann sou wo etaj la.”
“If it please the king,” Esther said, “let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
14 Pou sa, wa a te kòmande pou li ta fèt konsa. Yon dekrè te pibliye nan Suse e dis fis a Haman yo te pann.
And the king commanded it to be done. A decree was given out in Susa and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons on the gallows.
15 Jwif ki te nan Suse yo te rasanble, anplis, nan katòzyèm jou nan mwa Adar a e te touye twa-san moun nan Suse, men yo pa t mete men yo sou piyaj la.
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any plunder.
16 Alò, tout lòt moun nan Jwif yo ki te nan pwovens yo te rasanble pou defann lavi yo, pou te retire lènmi yo pami yo e pou te touye swasann-kenz-mil nan sila ki te rayi yo; men yo pa t mete men yo sou piyaj la.
And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any plunder.
17 Sa te fèt nan trèzyèm jou nan mwa Adar e nan katòzyèm jou a, yo te repoze e te fè li yon jou gwo fèt avèk rejwisans.
This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.
18 Men Jwif ki te nan Suse yo te rasanble nan trèzyèm avèk katòzyèm jou nan menm mwa a. Men yo te repoze nan kenzyèm jou a, e te fè li yon jou gwo fèt avèk rejwisans.
(But the Jews in Susa gathered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth day – and rested on the fifteenth day of the same month and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.)
19 Pou sa, Jwif nan andwa andeyò yo, ki te rete nan lavil riral yo, fè katòzyèm jou nan mwa Adar a yon jou fèt pou rejwi, fè fèt ak voye pòsyon manje bay youn lòt.
This is why the Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other.
20 Epi Mardochée te fè yon rapò de evènman sila yo, e li te voye lèt a tout Jwif ki te nan tout pwovens a Wa Assuérus yo, ni sila ki pre yo, ni sila ki te lwen yo,
Mordecai had these things recorded. He sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far.
21 pou fè yo konprann se devwa yo pou selebre katòzyèm jou a mwa Adar a avèk kenzyèm jou nan menm mwa a chak ane,
He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year,
22 paske nan jou sa yo, Jwif yo retire lènmi yo e se te nan mwa sa a ke tristès la te vin vire an kè kontan e kite rele anmwey la pou rive fè yon jou fèt; ke yo ta dwe fè yo jou a gwo bankè ak rejwisans; epi pou voye manje bay youn lòt avèk kado pou pòv yo.
as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a feast day. They should make them days of feasting and gladness and of sending gifts of food to each other and of gifts to the poor.
23 Konsa, Jwif yo te acheve fè sa ke yo te kòmanse fè a e menm sa ke Mardochée te ekri yo.
So what the Jews had begun to do they adopted as a custom, just as Mordecai had written to them.
24 Paske Haman, fis a Hammedatha a, Agagit la, advèsè a tout Jwif yo, te manevre kont Jwif yo pou detwi yo, e te voye Pur, sa vle di osò, pou deranje yo ak detwi yo.
For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them. He had cast ‘Pur’, that is the lot, intending to consume them and to destroy them.
25 Men lè li te rive nan atansyon a wa a, li te pase lòd pa lèt ke manèv mechan li an pou li te divize kont Jwif yo ta retounen sou pwòp tèt li, e ke li menm avèk fis li yo ta pann sou wo etaj la.
But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Pou sa, yo rele jou sila yo Purim menm non ak Pur. Epi akoz enstriksyon nan lèt sila yo, akoz sa yo te wè konsa ak sa ki te rive yo,
This is why these days are called Purim, after the word Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, as well as all they had seen, and all they had experienced,
27 Jwif yo te etabli e te fè kon koutim yo avèk desandan yo, pou tout sila ki te fè alyans avèk yo, pou yo pa ta manke selebre de jou sa yo selon règ e selon tan ki apwente chak ane.
the Jews established and made it a custom for them, for their descendants, and for all who should join them, so that it might not be repealed, that they should continue to observe these two days as feasts each year,
28 Pou sa, jou sa yo te gen pou sonje e selebre pandan tout jenerasyon, tout fanmi, tout pwovens ak tout vil; epi jou sila yo a Purim pa te janm dwe neglije pami Jwif yo, ni memwa yo vin pèdi fòs pami desandan yo.
and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city. And these days of Purim should not pass away from among the Jews nor the remembrance of them disappear among their descendants.
29 Epi rèn Esther, fi a Abichaïl la, avèk Mardochée, Jwif la, te ekri avèk plen otorite pou konfime dezyèm lèt sa a konsènan Purim.
Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, gave Mordecai the Jew all authority in writing to confirm this second letter of Purim.
30 Li te voye lèt yo a tout Jwif nan san-venn-sèt pwovens a wayòm Assuérus yo, avèk pawòl lapè ak verite,
He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, wishing them peace and security,
31 pou etabli jou a Purim sila yo nan tan ki apwente, jis jan ke Mardochée avèk rèn Esther te etabli a pou yo menm e pou desandan pa yo avèk enstriksyon pou tan jèn avèk lamantasyon yo.
to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation.
32 Se te lòd Esther a ki te etabli koutim sila yo pou Purim, e sa te ekri nan liv la.
And the commands of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the records.
