Esther 6
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,
1那夜王睡不着覺，就吩咐人取歷史來，念給他聽。
2They came to that place where it was written, how Mardochai had discovered the treason of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who sought to kill king Assuerus.
2正遇見書上寫着 說 ：王的太監中有兩個守門的， 辟探 和 提列 ，想要下手害 亞哈隨魯 王， 末底改 將這事告訴 王后 。
3And when the king heard this, he said: What honour and reward hath Mardochai received for this fidelity? His servants and ministers said to him: He hath received no reward at all.
3王說：「 末底改 行了這事，賜他甚麼尊榮爵位沒有？」伺候王的臣僕回答說：「沒有賜他甚麼。」
4And the king said immediately: Who is in the court? for Aman was coming in to the inner court of the king’s house, to speak to the king, that he might order Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet which was prepared for him.
4王說：「誰在院子裏？」（那時 哈曼 正進王宮的外院，要求王將 末底改 掛在他所預備的木架上。）
5The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
5臣僕說：「 哈曼 站在院內。」王說：「叫他進來。」
6And when he was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to the man whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking in his heart, and supposing that the king would honour no other but himself,
6哈曼 就進去。王問他說：「王所喜悅尊榮的人，當如何待他呢？」 哈曼 心裏說：「王所喜悅尊榮的，不是我是誰呢？」
7Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,
7哈曼 就回答說：「王所喜悅尊榮的，
8Ought to be clothed with the king’s apparel, and to be set upon the horse that the king rideth upon, and to have the royal crown upon his head,
8當將王常穿的朝服和戴冠的御馬，
9And let the first of the king’s princes and nobles hold his horse, and going through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say: Thus shall he be honoured, whom the king hath a mind to honour.
9都交給王極尊貴的一個大臣，命他將衣服給王所喜悅尊榮的人穿上，使他騎上馬，走遍城裏的街市，在他面前宣告說：王所喜悅尊榮的人，就如此待他。」
10And the king said to him: Make haste and take the robe and the horse, and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth before the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over any of those things which thou hast spoken.
10王對 哈曼 說：「你速速將這衣服和馬，照你所說的，向坐在朝門的 猶大 人 末底改 去行。凡你所說的，一樣不可缺。」
11So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mardochai in the street of the city, and setting him on the horse, went before him, and proclaimed: This honour is he worthy of, whom the king hath a mind to honour.
11於是 哈曼 將朝服給 末底改 穿上，使他騎上馬，走遍城裏的街市，在他面前宣告說：「王所喜悅尊榮的人，就如此待他。」
12But Mardochai returned to the palace gate: and Aman made haste to go to his house, mourning and having his head covered:
12末底改 仍回到朝門， 哈曼 卻憂憂悶悶地蒙着頭，急忙回家去了，
13And he told Zares his wife, and his friends, all that had befallen him. And the wise men whom he had in counsel, and his wife answered him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst not resist him, but thou shalt fall in his sight.
13將所遇的一切事詳細說給他的妻 細利斯 和他的眾朋友聽。他的智慧人和他的妻 細利斯 對他說：「你在 末底改 面前始而敗落，他如果是 猶大 人，你必不能勝他，終必在他面前敗落。」
14As they were yet speaking, the king’s eunuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.
14他們還與 哈曼 說話的時候，王的太監來催 哈曼 快去赴 以斯帖 所預備的筵席。
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