以斯帖記 7
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Berean Standard Bible
1王帶着 哈曼 來赴王后 以斯帖 的筵席。
1So the king and Haman went to dine with Esther the queen,
2這第二次在酒席筵前，王又問 以斯帖 說：「王后 以斯帖 啊，你要甚麼，我必賜給你；你求甚麼，*就是國的一半也必 為你 成就。」
2and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
3王后 以斯帖 回答說：「我若在王眼前蒙恩，王若以為美，我所願的，是願王將我的性命賜給我；我所求的，是求王將我的本族賜給我。
3Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
4因我和我的本族被賣了，要剪除殺戮滅絕我們。我們若被賣為奴為婢，我也閉口不言；但王的損失，敵人萬不能補足。」
4For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”
5亞哈隨魯 王問王后 以斯帖 說：「擅敢起意如此行的是誰？這人在哪裏呢？」
5Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
6以斯帖 說：「仇人敵人就是這惡人 哈曼 ！」 哈曼 在王和王后面前就甚驚惶。
6Esther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
7王便大怒，起來離開酒席往御園去了。 哈曼 見王定意要加罪與他，就起來，求王后 以斯帖 救命。
7In his fury, the king arose from drinking his wine and went to the palace garden, while Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life, for he realized that the king was planning a terrible fate for him.
8王從御園回到酒席之處，見 哈曼 伏在 以斯帖 所靠的榻上；王說：「他竟敢在宮內、在我面前凌辱王后嗎？」這話一出王口，人就蒙了 哈曼 的臉。
8Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9伺候王的一個太監名叫 哈波拿 ，說：「 哈曼 為那救王有功的 末底改 做了五丈高的木架，現今立在 哈曼 家裏。」王說：「把 哈曼 掛在其上。」
9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
10於是人將 哈曼 掛在他為 末底改 所預備的木架上。王的忿怒這才止息。
10So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
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