Ester 8
1 Pada hari itu Raja Ahasyweros memberikan kepada Ratu Ester segala harta benda Haman, musuh besar orang Yahudi itu. Ester memberitahukan kepada raja bahwa Mordekhai saudara sepupunya, maka sejak itu Mordekhai diberi hak untuk menghadap raja tanpa dipanggil lebih dahulu.
At that time King Ahasuerus gave the property of Haman the Jews’ enemy to Queen Esther. Mordecai was made one of the king’s personal advisers, for Esther had disclosed his relationship to her.
2 Raja melepaskan cincinnya yang telah diambilnya kembali dari Haman dan memberikannya kepada Mordekhai. Dan Ester mengangkat Mordekhai menjadi penguasa harta benda Haman.
The king also drew off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman. He gave it to Mordecai, and Esther placed Mordecai in charge of Haman’s property.
3 Setelah itu Ester menghadap raja lagi. Ia sujud sambil menangis dan mohon supaya raja meniadakan rencana jahat yang dibuat oleh Haman terhadap orang Yahudi.
Then Esther sought another audience with the king and fell at his feet and with tears begged him to avert the evil planned by Haman the Agagite and to frustrate his designs against the Jews.
4 Raja mengulurkan tongkat emasnya kepada Ester, lalu bangkitlah Ester dan berkata,
The king held out to her the golden sceptre, and she arose and stood before him.
5 "Kalau Baginda berkenan dan sayang kepada hamba, hendaknya Baginda mengeluarkan surat perintah untuk mencabut surat-surat Haman yang berisi perintah membinasakan semua orang Yahudi di kerajaan ini.
“If it seems best to the king,” she said, “and if I have won his favor and he thinks it right, and if I please him, let written orders be given to revoke the dispatches devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote ordering the destruction of the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
6 Bagaimana mungkin hamba tega melihat bangsa dan sanak saudara hamba habis dibantai?"
For how can I bear to look upon the evil that will come to my people? How can I bear to see their destruction?”
7 Maka kata Raja Ahasyweros kepada Ratu Ester dan Mordekhai, "Memang, aku telah menggantung Haman karena dia hendak membinasakan orang Yahudi, dan harta bendanya telah kuberikan kepada Ester.
Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the property of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he laid hands upon the Jews.
8 Tetapi surat yang telah ditulis atas nama raja dan diberi cap raja, tidak bisa dicabut kembali. Namun, kalian kuizinkan menulis surat tentang bangsa Yahudi, apa saja yang kalian pandang baik. Tulislah surat itu atas namaku dengan dibubuhi cap kerajaan."
Now you write on behalf of the Jews, as seems best to you, in the king’s name and seal it with the king’s signet ring. For a document that is written in the king’s name and sealed with the king’s signet ring cannot be revoked.”
9 Pada hari itu juga, yaitu pada tanggal 23 bulan tiga, bulan Siwan, Mordekhai memanggil para sekretaris raja dan memerintahkan mereka menulis surat kepada para gubernur, para bupati dan para pembesar ke-127 provinsi, dari India sampai ke Sudan. Surat-surat itu ditulis dalam bahasa dan tulisan provinsi-provinsi itu masing-masing. Ia juga mengirim surat itu kepada orang Yahudi dalam bahasa dan tulisan Yahudi.
On the twenty-third day of the third month (that is the month of Sivan), the king’s secretaries were summoned and as Mordecai instructed an edict was issued to the Jews, to the satraps and provincial governors and the rulers of each of the one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia in their own script and their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
10 Surat-surat itu ditandatangani Mordekhai atas nama Raja Ahasyweros dan dibubuhi dengan cap kerajaan. Lalu Mordekhai menyuruh utusan-utusan mengantarkan surat-surat itu ke provinsi-provinsi kerajaan dengan menunggang kuda-kuda cepat milik raja.
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus. He sealed it with the king’s signet ring. Dispatches were sent by mounted couriers who rode the swift, noble steeds, bred of the royal studs.
11 Surat-surat itu menyatakan bahwa raja mengizinkan orang Yahudi di setiap kota untuk bersatu dan membela diri. Apabila mereka diserang oleh orang-orang bersenjata dari bangsa dan provinsi mana pun, mereka boleh melawan dan membunuh para penyerang itu beserta istri dan anak-anaknya; mereka boleh membantai musuh-musuhnya itu sampai habis serta merampas harta bendanya.
In this way the king permitted the Jews who were in every city to gather together and make a stand for their life, to destroy, to kill, and annihilate all the armed forces of any people or province that might be hostile to them, including their children and women, and to take their goods as plunder
12 Perintah itu harus dilaksanakan di seluruh kerajaan Persia pada hari yang telah ditetapkan oleh Haman untuk membunuh orang-orang Yahudi, pada tanggal tiga belas bulan dua belas, bulan Adar.
throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus on that thirteenth day of the twelfth month (which is called Adar).
13 Surat perintah itu harus dikeluarkan sebagai undang-undang dan disiarkan kepada semua orang di semua provinsi supaya bangsa Yahudi siap siaga melawan musuhnya apabila hari itu tiba.
A copy of the edict was to be published as a decree in every province – publicly displayed so that the Jews might be ready for that day and avenge themselves.
14 Maka berangkatlah para pesuruh itu dengan menunggang kuda milik raja. Juga di Susan ibukota negara, perintah itu dibacakan.
So the couriers who rode the swift, noble steeds went out, hastened and impelled by the king’s commands! Meantime the decree had been given out in the royal palace at Susa;
15 Setelah itu Mordekhai meninggalkan istana dengan memakai pakaian kebesaran berwarna biru dan putih, jubah ungu dari lenan halus dan mahkota emas yang indah sekali. Kota Susan bersorak sorai karena gembira.
and Mordecai had gone out from the presence of the king in royal garments of violet and white and with a great crown of gold and with a robe of fine linen and purple. The people of Susa shouted and were glad.
16 Orang Yahudi merasa lega dan senang, bahagia dan bangga.
To the Jews there came light and gladness and joy and honor.
17 Juga di setiap kota dan provinsi, di mana pun surat perintah raja dibacakan, orang-orang Yahudi bergembira, bersenang-senang dan berpesta. Malahan banyak dari penduduk yang menjadi warga bangsa Yahudi, karena mereka takut kepada bangsa itu.
And in every province and city, wherever the king’s command and decree came, there was gladness and joy among the Jews and a holiday. Many of the peoples of the earth professed to be Jews, for fear of the Jews took possession of them.
