Ɛster 7
1 Enti ɔhene no ne Haman kɔɔ Ɔhemmea Ɛster aponto no ase.
And the king comes in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the queen,
2 Wɔrenonom nsa saa da no, ɔhene no ka kyerɛɛ no bio se, “Ɔhemmea Ɛster, kyerɛ me nea wopɛ. Wʼabisade ne dɛn? Sɛ ɛyɛ ahemman yi mu fa koraa a, mede bɛma wo!”
and the king says to Esther also on the second day, during the banquet of wine, “What [is] your petition, Esther, O queen? And it is given to you; and what [is] your request? To the half of the kingdom—and it is done.”
3 Ɔhemmea Ɛster buae se, “Sɛ Ɔhempɔn ani gye me ho, na ɔpɛ sɛ ɔyɛ mʼabisade ma me a, mʼadesrɛ ara ne sɛ, obegyaa me nkwa ne me manfo nkwa mu ama yɛn.
And Esther the queen answers and says, “If I have found grace in your eyes, O king, and if to the king [it be] good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;
4 Efisɛ wɔatɔn me ne me manfo ama nnipa a wobekunkum yɛn, atɔre yɛn ase. Sɛ wɔtɔn yɛn sɛ nkoa kɛkɛ mpo a, anka mɛtena dinn, efisɛ ɛno de, ɛyɛ asɛm ketewa bi a ɛho nhia sɛ wɔde kɔdan ɔhene.”
for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for menservants and for maidservants we had been sold I had kept silent—but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.”
5 Ɔhene Ahasweros bisae se, “Hena na ɔbɛyɛ saa? Na hena na obetumi de ne nsa aka wo?”
And King Ahasuerus says, indeed, he says to Esther the queen, “Who [is] he—this one? And where [is] this one whose heart has filled him to do so?”
6 Ɛster buae se, “Saa omumɔyɛfo ne ɔtamfo yi ne onimguasefo Haman.” Ehu maa Haman ho popoo wɔ ɔhene ne ɔhemmea no anim.
And Esther says, “The man—adversary and enemy—[is] this wicked Haman”; and Haman has been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.
7 Ɔhene no de abufuw huruw gyinaa ne nan so, na ɔkɔɔ ahemfi hɔ turo mu. Na Haman kaa hɔ, guan toaa Ɔhemmea Ɛster sɛ ɔnsrɛ ne nkwa mma no, efisɛ na onim sɛ nʼawie adu.
And the king has risen, in his fury, from the banquet of wine, to the garden of the house, and Haman has remained to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he has seen that evil has been determined against him by the king.
8 Ɔtew hwee Ɔhemmea Ɛster mpa a ɔrehome wɔ so no so. Ɛhɔ ara na ɔhene no nso fii ahemfi no turo mu hɔ bae. Ɔhene no bobɔɔ mu se, “Hwɛ ɔrebɛboro ɔhemmea yi bere a ɔwɔ me nkyɛn wɔ fie ha nso?” Ɔhene no kasa wiee ara pɛ, nʼasomfo no kataa Haman anim a ɛkyerɛ sɛ, nʼawie adu.
And the king has turned back out of the garden of the house to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther [is], and the king says, “Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?” The word has gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered.
9 Na Harbona a ɔyɛ ɔhene no piamfo no mu baako kae se, “Haman asi dua a ne sorokɔ yɛ anammɔn aduɔson anum wɔ ɔno ara nʼadiwo. Na nʼadwene ne sɛ, ɔbɛsɛn Mordekai a ogyee ɔhene nkwa no wɔ so.” Afei, ɔhene no kae se, “Monsɛn Haman wɔ so.”
And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, says before the king, “Also behold, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits”; and the king says, “Hang him on it.”
10 Enti wɔsɛn Haman wɔ dua no a osi maa Mordekai no so, maa ɔhene no bo dwoe.
And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
