Ester 7
1 Vindo pois o rei com Haman, para beber com a rainha Esther,
So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
2 Disse também o rei a Esther no segundo dia, no banquete do vinho: Qual é a tua petição, rainha Esther? e se te dará: e qual é o teu requerimento? até metade do reino, se fará.
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 Então respondeu a rainha Esther, e disse: Se, ó rei, achei graça aos teus olhos, e se bem parecer ao rei, dê-se-me a minha vida como minha petição, e o meu povo como meu requerimento.
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 Porque estamos vendidos, eu e o meu povo, para nos destruírem, matarem, e lançarem a perder: se ainda por servos e por servas nos vendessem, calar-me-ia; ainda que o opressor não recompensaria a perda do rei.
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 Então falou o rei Assuero, e disse à rainha Esther: Quem é esse? e onde está esse, cujo coração o instigou a assim fazer
And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
6 E disse Esther: O homem, o opressor, e o inimigo, é este mau Haman. Então Haman se perturbou perante o rei e a rainha.
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 E o rei no seu furor se levantou do banquete do vinho para o jardim do palácio; e Haman se pôs em pé, para rogar à rainha Esther pela sua vida; porque viu que já o mal lhe era determinado pelo rei.
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 Tornando pois o rei do jardim do palácio à casa do banquete do vinho, Haman tinha caído prostrado sobre o leito em que estava Esther. Então disse o rei: Porventura quereria ele também forçar a rainha perante mim nesta casa? Saindo esta palavra da boca do rei, cobriram a Haman o rosto.
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 Então disse Harbona, um dos eunucos que serviam diante do rei: Eis aqui também a forca de cincoênta côvados de altura que Haman fizera para mardoqueu, que falara para bem do rei, está junto à casa de Haman. Então disse o rei: enforcai-o nela.
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 Enforcaram pois a Haman na forca, que ele tinha preparado para mardoqueu. Então o furor do rei se aplacou.
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.
