Esta 9

1 Sasa katika mwezi wa kumi na mbili, siku ya kumi na tatu ambayo ni siku ya Adari, siku ambayo adui wa Wayahudi walitarajia kutekeleza sheria ya mfalme na kupata nguvu dhidi ya Wayahudi. Badala yake Wayahudi wakapata nguvu dhidi ya adui zao.

Now in the twelfth month (that is the month of Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and his decree was about to put into execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, then the tables were turned so that the Jews had the mastery over those who hated them.

2 Wayahudi wote wakakusanyika katika miji yao katika majimbo yote ya Mfalme Ahusiero, kutia mikono juu ya wale waliokusudia ubaya. Hakuna aliye kuwa tayari kusimama zao kwa sababu hofu yao ilikuwa imewaangukia watu wote.

The Jews gathered together in the cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to attack anyone who tried to harm them. No one could withstand them, for the fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.

3 Wakuu wote wa majimbo, maakida na magavana, na watawala wa mfalme, waliwasaidia Wayahudi kwa kuwa hofu ya Modekai ilikuwa imewaangukia.

All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

4 Kwa kuwa Modekai alikuwa mkuu katika nyumba ya mfalme, na umaarufu wake ukasambaa katika majimbo yote, kwa kuwa Modekai alikuwa akifanyika mkuu.

For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and as his power increased his fame spread throughout all the provinces.

5 Wayahudi wakawavamia maadi zao kwa upanga, wakiwatenda vibaya kama walivyokuwa wamekusudiwa mabaya dhidi yao Wakawatenda kama walivyo ona vyema machoni pao.

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated them.

6 Katika ngome ya mji wa Shushani pekee jumla ya maadui waliouawa na na kuharibiwa na Wayahudi ni wanaume mia tano.

In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.

7 Miongoni mwa waliouawa ni pamoja na Parishandatha, Dalphoni, Aspatha,

They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

9 Parimashita, Arisai, Aridai, Vaizatha,

Parmashta, Arisia, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

10 na wana kumi wa Hamani, mwana wa Hammedatha, adui wa Wayahudi. Lakini hawakuchua mateka yoyote.

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy; but they did not take any plunder.

11 Idadi ya wale waliouawa siku hiyo katika mji wa Shushani, ilifikishwa kwa Mfalme Ahusiero.

On that day the number of those who were slain in Susa was brought before the king,

12 Mfalme akamwambia malkia Esta. Mfalme akamwambia Malkia Esta, “Wayahudi wameua wanaume mia tano katika mji wa Shushani, wakiwemo wana kumi wa Hamani adui wa Wayahudi. Je wamefanya nini katika majimbo mengine? Na sasa haja yako ni nini? Utapewa. Ombi lako ni nini?”

and the king said to Queen Esther, “The Jews have slain five hundred people in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is your petition? It will be granted to you. What is your request? It will be done.”

13 Esta akamjibu, “Mfalme kama ikikupendeza, ruhusu Wayuadi walio katika mji wa Shushani wapige mbiu hii na kesho, na miili ya watoto wa Hamani itundikwe juu ya miti.”

“If it please the king,” Esther said, “let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to this day’s decree. Let the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

14 Mfalme akaamuru ombi la Esta litekelezwe. Mbiu ilipigwa katika mji wa Shushani, na wana kumi wa Hamani wakatundikwa juu ya miti.

And the king commanded it to be done. A decree was given out in Susa and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons on the gallows.

15 Wayahudi katika mji wa Shushani walisanyika pamoja siku ya kumi na nne ya mwezi wa Adari, na kuwaua maadui zao mia tatu katika mji wa Shushani, lakini hawakugusa nyara zao.

The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any plunder.

16 Na Wayahudi katika majimbo mengine wakakusanyika ili kujilinda na wakapata faraja kutoka kwa maadui na wakawaua maadui zao elfu sabini na tano, lakini hawakugusa mikono yao kwa vitu vya thamani wale waliouwawa.

And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any plunder.

17 Katika siku ya kumi na tatu ya mwezi wa Adari, Wayahudi wakapumzika katika siku ya kumi na nne, wakapumzika siku hiyo ya karamu na furaha.

This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews rested and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.

18 Lakini Wayahudi walioishi katika mji wa Shushani wakaja pamoja siku ya kumi na tatu na ya kumi na nne. Na siku ya kumi na tano wakapumzika na wafanya karamu na kufurahia.

(But the Jews in Susa gathered on both the thirteenth and fourteenth day – and rested on the fifteenth day of the same month and made it a day of feasting and rejoicing.)

19 Hii ndiyo sababu Wayahudi wa vijijini, wanaishi maeneo ya vijijini, huadhimisha siku ya kumi na nne ya mwezi wa Adari kama siku ya furaha na karamu na siku ambayo hutumiana zawadi kwa kila mmoja.

This is why the Jews who live in the country villages keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of rejoicing and feasting and a holiday, and a day in which they send gifts of food to each other.

20 Modekai akaweka mambo haya na akatuma nyaraka kwa Wayahudi wote waliokuwa katika utawala wa Mfalme Ahusiero,

Mordecai had these things recorded. He sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far.

21 akiwataka kuazimisha siku ya kumi na nne na kumi na tano ya mwezi wa Adari kila mwaka.

He told them to keep the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and also the fifteenth day every year,

22 Hizi zilikuwa ndizo siku ambazo Wahudi walipata faraja kutoka kwa maadui zao na wakati huu ndio wakati ambao huzuni ya Wayahudi iligeuzwa kuwa furaha, na kutoka kwa maombolezo hadi kwenye pumziko. Walipaswa kuzifanya siku za karamu na furaha, na kutumiana zawadi ya chakula, na zawadi kwa masikini.

as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned from sorrow to gladness and from mourning into a feast day. They should make them days of feasting and gladness and of sending gifts of food to each other and of gifts to the poor.

23 Wayahudi wakaendelea na maadhimisho wakifanya kile ambacho Modekai alikuwa amewaandikia.

So what the Jews had begun to do they adopted as a custom, just as Mordecai had written to them.

24 Na wakati huo Modekai mwana wa Hammedatha mwagagi, adui wa Wayahudi aliyekuwa amepanga njama ya kuwaangamiza Wayahudi, na kwa kupiga Puri (yaani akapiga kura) ili kuwaangamiza kabisa.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted to destroy them. He had cast ‘Pur’, that is the lot, intending to consume them and to destroy them.

25 Lakini Mfalme Ahusiero alipopata taarifa ya mpango mbaya huu alioupanga Modekai dhidi ya Wayahudi, aliagiza kwa nyaraka afanyiwe Modekai mwenyewe, na kwamba yeye na wana wake wanyongwe juu ya miti.

But when the matter came before the king, he gave written orders that his wicked plot, which he had planned against the Jews, should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

26 Hivyo Wayahudi wakaziita siku hizi Purimu, kutokana na jina Puri. Kwa sababu ya mambo yote yaliyo kuwa yameandika katika barua, na mambo yote ambayo walikuwa wameyaona kwa macho yao, na yale yalikuwa yamewapata,

This is why these days are called Purim, after the word Pur. Therefore because of all the words of this letter, as well as all they had seen, and all they had experienced,

27 Wayahudi wakapokea jukumu na desturi mpya. Desturi hii iwe kwa ajili yao, watoto wao, na kila ambaye aliyeungana nao. Na itakuwa kwamba maadhimisho haya watayafanya kwa kila mwaka. Wataadhimisha kwa namna fulani na nyakati hizo hizo kila mwaka.

the Jews established and made it a custom for them, for their descendants, and for all who should join them, so that it might not be repealed, that they should continue to observe these two days as feasts each year,

28 Siku hizi zilipaswa kuadhimishwa katika kila kizazi, kila familia, kila jimbo na kwa kila mji. Wayahudi hawa na watoto wao hawakuacha kuadhimisha siku hizi za Purimu, ili kwamba wasizisahau.

and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city. And these days of Purim should not pass away from among the Jews nor the remembrance of them disappear among their descendants.

29 Malkia Esta na Modekai wakaandika kwa mamlaka yote na kuthibitisha barua hii ya pili kuhusu Purimu.

Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, gave Mordecai the Jew all authority in writing to confirm this second letter of Purim.

30 Barua zilipelekwa katika majimbo 127 ya mfalme Ahusiero, zikiwatakia Wayahudi wote amani na kweli.

He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, wishing them peace and security,

31 Na kuthibitisha siku za Purimu sawa sawa na maelekezo ya Modekai na Esta yaliyowataka Wayahudi waadhimishe. Wayahudi wakatii maagizo kwa ajili yao na uzao wao, kama walivyotii siku za kufunga na kuomboleza.

to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation.

32 Agizo la Esta likahakikisha sheria hizi kuhusu Purimu, na ikaandikwa katika kitabu.

And the commands of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the records.