エステル記 6
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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。
1On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
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。
2It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.
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。」
3The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
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。
4The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had 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 king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.” 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。」
6So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”
7ハマンは王に答えた。「王が栄誉を与えたい者には、
7Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,
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。
8let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.
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。」
9Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”
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。」
10Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have 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。
11Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”
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。
12Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried 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。」
13Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”
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。
14While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
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