Ester 7
1 Datanglah raja dengan Haman untuk dijamu oleh Ester, sang ratu.
So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
2 Pada hari yang kedua itu, sementara minum anggur, bertanyalah pula raja kepada Ester: "Apakah permintaanmu, hai ratu Ester? Niscaya akan dikabulkan. Dan apakah keinginanmu? Sampai setengah kerajaan sekalipun akan dipenuhi."
And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.
3 Maka jawab Ester, sang ratu: "Ya raja, jikalau hamba mendapat kasih raja dan jikalau baik pada pemandangan raja, karuniakanlah kiranya kepada hamba nyawa hamba atas permintaan hamba, dan bangsa hamba atas keinginan hamba.
Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.
4 Karena kami, hamba serta bangsa hamba, telah terjual untuk dipunahkan, dibunuh dan dibinasakan. Jikalau seandainya kami hanya dijual sebagai budak laki-laki dan perempuan, niscaya hamba akan berdiam diri, tetapi malapetaka ini tiada taranya di antara bencana yang menimpa raja."
For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
5 Maka bertanyalah raja Ahasyweros kepada Ester, sang ratu: "Siapakah orang itu dan di manakah dia yang hatinya mengandung niat akan berbuat demikian?"
And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
6 Lalu jawab Ester: "Penganiaya dan musuh itu, ialah Haman, orang jahat ini!" Maka Hamanpun sangatlah ketakutan di hadapan raja dan ratu.
And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.
7 Lalu bangkitlah raja dengan panas hatinya dari pada minum anggur dan keluar ke taman istana; akan tetapi Haman masih tinggal untuk memohon nyawanya kepada Ester, sang ratu, karena ia melihat, bahwa telah putus niat raja untuk mendatangkan celaka kepadanya.
But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.
8 Ketika raja kembali dari taman istana ke dalam ruangan minum anggur, maka Haman berlutut pada katil tempat Ester berbaring. Maka titah raja: "Masih jugakah ia hendak menggagahi sang ratu di dalam istanaku sendiri?" Tatkala titah raja itu keluar dari mulutnya, maka diselubungi oranglah muka Haman.
And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king’s mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
9 Sembah Harbona, salah seorang sida-sida yang di hadapan raja: "Lagipula tiang yang dibuat Haman untuk Mordekhai, orang yang menyelamatkan raja dengan pemberitahuannya itu, telah berdiri di dekat rumah Haman, lima puluh hasta tingginya." Lalu titah raja: "Sulakan dia pada tiang itu."
And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman’s house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it.
10 Kemudian Haman disulakan pada tiang yang didirikannya untuk Mordekhai. Maka surutlah panas hati raja.
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.
