Esther 7
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
1王帶着 哈曼 來赴王后 以斯帖 的筵席。
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.
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。」
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.
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。
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.
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。」
5And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
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？」
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。
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.
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。」
10So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.
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。
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