エステル 記 7

1 王またハマンとともに后エステルと酒宴せんとて來れり

So the king and Aman went in to drink with the queen.

2 この第二の酒宴の日に王またエステルに言けるは后エステルよなんぢのもとめは何なるや かならず許さるべし 汝のねがひは何なるや國の半分にいたるとも成就らるべし

And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, queen Esther? and what [is] thy request, and what [is] thy petition? and it shall be [done] for thee, to the half of my kingdom.

3 后エステルこたへて言けるは王よ我もし王の御目の前に恩を得王もし善と見たまはばわがもとめにしたがりこわが生命をわれに賜へ またわが願にしたがひてわが民を我に賜へ

And she answered and said, If I have found favour in the sight of the king, let [my] life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request.

4 我とわが民は売れて滅ぼされ殺され絶されんとす 我らもし奴婢に売れたるならんには我黙してはべらん 敵人は王の損害を償なふ事能はざるなり

For both I and my people are sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; [both] we and our children for bondmen and bondwomen: and I consented not to it, for the slanderer [is] not worthy of the king’s palace.

5 アハシユエロス王后エステルにこたへて言けるは之をなさんと心にたくめる者は誰また何處にをるや

And the king said, Who [is] this that has dared to do this thing?

6 エステルいひけるはその敵その仇人は即ちこの惡きハマンなりと 是によりてハマンは王と后の前にありて懼れたり

And Esther said, The adversary [is] Aman, this wicked man. Then Aman was troubled before the king and the queen.

7 王怒り酒宴の席をたちて宮殿の園に往きければハマンたちあがりて后エステルに生命を乞り 其はかれ王のおのれに禍災をなさんと決めしを見たればなり

And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden: and Aman began to intreat the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.

8 王宮殿の園より歸りて酒宴の場にいたりしにエステルのをる牀榻の上にハマン俯伏ゐたれば王いひけるは彼はまた家の内にてわが前に后を辱しめんとするかと此ことば王の口より出るや人々ハマンの面をおほへり

And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Wilt thou even force [my] wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.

9 時に王の前にある一人の侍從ハルボナいひけるは王の爲に善き事を言たりしかのモルデカイを懸んとてハマンが作りたる五十キユビトのり木ハマンの家に立をるなりと王いひけるは彼をその上に懸よ

And Bugathan, one of the chamberlains, said to the king, Behold, Aman has also prepared a gallows for Mardochæus, who spoke concerning the king, and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up in the premises of Aman. And the king said, Let him be hanged thereon.

10 人々ハマンを其モルデカイをかけんとて設けし本の上に懸たり 王の震怒つひに解く

So Aman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mardochæus: and then the king’s wrath was appeased.

Esther Accuses Haman