以斯帖记 7
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Simplified)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1王带着 哈曼 来赴王后 以斯帖 的筵席。
1So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
2这第二次在酒席筵前，王又问 以斯帖 说：「王后 以斯帖 啊，你要什么，我必赐给你；你求什么，就是国的一半也必 为你 成就。」
2And 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王后 以斯帖 回答说：「我若在王眼前蒙恩，王若以为美，我所愿的，是愿王将我的性命赐给我；我所求的，是求王将我的本族赐给我。
3Then 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因我和我的本族被卖了，要剪除杀戮灭绝我们。我们若被卖为奴为婢，我也闭口不言；但王的损失，敌人万不能补足。」
4For 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亚哈随鲁 王问王后 以斯帖 说：「擅敢起意如此行的是谁？这人在哪里呢？」
5And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
6以斯帖 说：「仇人敌人就是这恶人 哈曼 ！」 哈曼 在王和王后面前就甚惊惶。
6And 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王便大怒，起来离开酒席往御园去了。 哈曼 见王定意要加罪与他，就起来，求王后 以斯帖 救命。
7But 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王从御园回到酒席之处，见 哈曼 伏在 以斯帖 所靠的榻上；王说：「他竟敢在宫内、在我面前凌辱王后吗？」这话一出王口，人就蒙了 哈曼 的脸。
8And 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伺候王的一个太监名叫 哈波拿 ，说：「 哈曼 为那救王有功的 末底改 做了五丈高的木架，现今立在 哈曼 家里。」王说：「把 哈曼 挂在其上。」
9And 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于是人将 哈曼 挂在他为 末底改 所预备的木架上。王的忿怒这才止息。
10So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.
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