< Eseza 7 >
1 Awo Kabaka ne Kamani ne bagenda ku mbaga ya Nnabagereka Eseza gye yateekateeka.
So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
2 Ku lunaku olwokubiri bwe baali banywa wayini Kabaka n’addamu n’abuuza Eseza nti, “Nnabagereka Eseza osaba ki? Onookiweebwa. Kiki kye weegayirira? Ne bwe kinaaba ekitundu ky’obwakabaka, kinaakuweebwa.”
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 Awo Eseza n’addamu nti, “Obanga ŋŋanze mu maaso go, ayi Kabaka, era Oweekitiibwa bw’onoosiima, kino kye nsaba, mpeebwe obulamu bwange. Ate era n’abantu bange bawonye obulamu bwabwe. Kino kye nneegayirira.
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 Nze n’abantu bange tutuundiddwa eri okuzikirizibwa, okuttibwa n’okubula. Wakiri singa tutuundiddwa okuba abaddu n’abakazi abaweereza, nandisirise ne sikuteganya newaakubadde nga omulabe teyandiyinzizza kuliwa kabaka bwe yandifiiriddwa.”
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 Awo Kabaka Akaswero n’abuuza Nnabagereka Eseza nti, “Ani era ali ludda wa oyo ayaŋŋanga okugezaako mu mutima gwe okukola bw’atyo?”
And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
6 Awo Eseza n’addamu nti, “Omulabe waffe, atukyawa, ye Kamani ono omubi.” Kamani n’atya nnyo mu maaso ga Kabaka ne Nnabagereka.
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 Awo Kabaka n’agolokoka ng’aliko ekiruyi, n’aleka wayini we, n’alaga ebweru mu nnimiro ey’omu lubiri. Kamani bwe yalaba nga Kabaka amaliridde okumubonereza, n’asigala emabega okusaba obulamu bwe eri Nnabagereka Eseza.
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 Kabaka n’akomawo okuva mu nnimiro ey’omu lubiri n’ayingira mu kifo eky’embaga, n’asanga Kamani ng’agudde ku ntebe ey’olugalamiriro Eseza kwe yali. Kabaka ne yeekanga nnyo era n’akangula eddoboozi ng’agamba nti, “N’okukwata ayagala kukwatira Nnabagereka mu maaso gange wano mu nnyumba?” Kabaka bwe yali nga yakamala okwogera ekigambo ekyo, ne babikka ku maaso ga Kamani.
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 Awo Kalubona, omu ku balaawe abaali baweereza Kabaka n’ayogera nti, “Waliwo akalabba kumpi ne nnyumba ya Kamani obuwanvu bwako mita amakumi abiri mu ssatu ke yazimba okuttirako Moluddekaayi eyayogera n’awonya obulamu bwa Kabaka.” Kabaka n’agamba nti, “Mumuwanike okwo.”
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 Awo ne bawanika Kamani ku kalabba ke yali azimbidde Moluddekaayi, olwo obusungu bwa kabaka ne bukkakkana.
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.