Ɛster 7
1 Enti, ɔhene no ne Haman kɔɔ Ɔhemmaa Ɛster apontoɔ no.
And the king comes in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the queen,
2 Na ɛberɛ a wɔrenonom nsã saa da no, bio, ɔhene no ka kyerɛɛ no sɛ, “Ɔhemmaa Ɛster, kyerɛ me deɛ wopɛ. Wʼabisadeɛ ne sɛn? 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 Ɔhemmaa Ɛster buaa sɛ, “Sɛ Ɔhene kɛseɛ ani gye me ho, na ɔpɛ sɛ ɔyɛ mʼabisadeɛ ma me a, mʼadesrɛ ara ne sɛ, ɔbɛgyaa me nkwa ne me manfoɔ 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 Ɛfiri sɛ, wɔatɔn me ne me manfoɔ ama nnipa a wɔbɛkunkum yɛn, atɔre yɛn ase. Sɛ wɔtɔn yɛn sɛ nkoa kɛkɛ mpo a, anka mɛtena dinn, ɛfiri sɛ, ɛno deɛ, ɛyɛ asɛm kumaa 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 bisaa sɛ, “Hwan na ɔbɛyɛ saa? Na hwan na ɔbɛtumi 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 buaa sɛ, “Saa omumuyɛfoɔ ne ɔtamfoɔ yi ne animguaseni Haman.” Ehu maa Haman too hoa wɔ ɔhene ne ɔhemmaa 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 abufuo huri gyinaa ne nan so, na ɔkɔɔ ahemfie hɔ turo mu. Na Haman kaa hɔ, dwane toaa Ɔhemmaa Ɛster sɛ ɔnsrɛ ne nkwa mma no, ɛfiri sɛ, na ɔnim sɛ nʼawieeɛ aduru.
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 Ɔde abasamutuo bu hwee Ɔhemmaa Ɛster mpa a ɔrehome so no so. Ɛhɔ ara na ɔhene no nso firii ahemfie no turo mu hɔ baeɛ. Ɔhene no bobɔɔ mu sɛ, “Hwɛ ɔrebɛboro ɔhemmaa yi wɔ ahemfie ha, wɔ mʼani so ha nso?” Ɔhene no kasa wieeɛ ara pɛ, nʼasomfoɔ no kataa Haman anim a ɛkyerɛ sɛ, nʼawieeɛ aduru.
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 apiafoɔ no mu baako kaa sɛ, “Haman asi dua a ne ɔsorokɔ yɛ anammɔn aduɔson enum wɔ ɔno ara nʼadihɔ. Na nʼadwene ne sɛ, ɔbɛsɛn Mordekai a ɔgyee ɔhene nkwa no wɔ so.” Afei, ɔhene no kaa sɛ, “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, wɔsɛnee Haman wɔ dua no a ɔsi maa Mordekai no so, maa ɔhene no bo dwoeɛ.
And they hang Haman on the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king has lain down.
