エステル記 6
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)Translation
Freedom Bible (フリーダム・バイブル)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1その夜、王は眠れなかった。そこで年代記を持って来させ、王の前で読み上げさせた。
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,
2そこには、入口を守る王の宦官ビグタナとテレシュの二人がアハシュエロス王に手を下そうとした企てを、モルデカイが告発したことが記されていた。
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.
3王は尋ねた。「この功績に対して、モルデカイにどんな栄誉と顕彰が与えられたか。」王に仕える侍臣たちは答えた。「何もなされておりません。」
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.
4王は言った。「庭にいるのは誰か。」その時ハマンは、自分が用意した木柱にモルデカイを掛けるよう王に願い出るため、王宮の外庭に入って来ていた。
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.
5侍臣たちは王に言った。「ご覧ください、ハマンが庭に立っています。」王は言った。「入らせよ。」
5The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
6ハマンが入って来ると、王は尋ねた。「王が栄誉を与えたい者には、どうするのがよいか。」ハマンは心の中で思った。「王が私以上に栄誉を与えたい者がいるだろうか。」
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,
7ハマンは王に答えた。「王が栄誉を与えたい者には、
7Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,
8王がお召しになった王服と、王がお乗りになり、頭に王冠を載せた馬を持って来させてください。
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,
9その王服と馬を、王の最も高貴な高官の一人に預け、その者に、王が栄誉を与えたい人へ王服を着せさせ、馬に乗せて町の広場を進ませてください。そしてその前で、『王が栄誉を与えたい者には、このようになされる』と宣言させてください。」
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.
10王はハマンに言った。「急いで、あなたが言ったとおり王服と馬を取り、王の門に座っているユダヤ人モルデカイにそのようにせよ。あなたの言ったことを一つも省いてはならない。」
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.
11ハマンは王服と馬を取り、モルデカイに王服を着せ、馬に乗せて町の広場を進ませ、その前で「王が栄誉を与えたい者には、このようになされる」と宣言した。
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.
12モルデカイは王の門へ戻った。一方ハマンは、嘆きながら頭を覆い、急いで家へ帰った。
12But Mardochai returned to the palace gate: and Aman made haste to go to his house, mourning and having his head covered:
13ハマンは妻ゼレシュとすべての友人に、自分に起こったことを残らず語った。すると知者たちと妻ゼレシュは言った。「あなたがその前で敗れ始めたモルデカイがユダヤ人の子孫なら、あなたは彼に勝てません。必ず彼の前に倒れます。」
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.
14彼らがまだ話しているうちに王の宦官たちが来て、エステルの用意した祝宴へハマンを急いで連れて行った。
14As they were yet speaking, the king’s eunuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.
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