エステル記 8
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1その日、アハシュエロス王は、ユダヤ人の敵ハマンの家を王妃エステルに与えた。モルデカイも王の前に出た。エステルが、彼は自分の身内であると王に明かしたからである。
1On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
2王はハマンから取り戻した印章の指輪を外し、モルデカイに与えた。エステルはモルデカイをハマンの家の管理者とした。
2The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
3エステルは再び王の前で語り、その足もとにひれ伏した。そして涙ながらに、アガグ人ハマンの悪意と、彼がユダヤ人に対して企てた計略を取り除いてくださるよう願った。
3Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet and begged him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his plan that he had planned against the Jews.
4王がエステルに金の笏を差し伸べると、エステルは立ち上がって王の前に立った。
4Then the king held out to Esther the golden scepter. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
5彼女は言った。「王がよしとされ、私が王の好意を受け、このことが王に正しいと見え、また私が王の心にかなうなら、アガグ人ハメダタの子ハマンが王の全州にいるユダヤ人を滅ぼすために書いた書状を取り消す文書をお書きください。
5She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seems right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king’s provinces.
6どうして私は、自分の民に災いが降りかかるのを見ていられましょう。どうして自分の同胞が滅ぼされるのを見ていられましょう。」
6For how can I endure to see the evil that would come to my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my relatives?”
7アハシュエロス王は王妃エステルとユダヤ人モルデカイに言った。「見よ、私はハマンの家をエステルに与えた。また、ハマンはユダヤ人を滅ぼそうとしたため、木柱に掛けられた。
7Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he laid his hand on the Jews.
8あなたがたは、ユダヤ人のためによいと思うことを王の名で書き、王の印章の指輪で封印せよ。王の名で書かれ、王の印章の指輪で封印された文書は、誰にも取り消せないからである。」
8Write also to the Jews as it pleases you, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s ring; for the writing which is written in the king’s name, and sealed with the king’s ring, may not be reversed by any man.”
9そこで第三の月、すなわちシワンの月の二十三日に、王の書記官たちが召集された。モルデカイの命じたことがすべて、インドからエチオピアに至る百二十七州のユダヤ人、総督、長官、諸州の高官に宛てて書かれた。それぞれの州にはその文字で、それぞれの民にはその言語で、ユダヤ人にもその文字とその言語で記された。
9Then the king’s scribes were called at that time, in the third month, which is the month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of the month; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, and to the local governors, and the governors and princes of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, one hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to its writing, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing, and in their language.
10モルデカイはアハシュエロス王の名で書き、王の印章の指輪で封印した。そして王室の駿馬に乗る急使たちに書状を託した。
10He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.
11その書状で王は、各町のユダヤ人が集まって命を守り、彼らを攻撃する民や州のすべての武装勢力を、その子どもや女たちもろとも滅ぼし、殺し、絶やし、その財産を略奪することを許した。
11In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to defend their lives—to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
12その日は、アハシュエロス王の全州で同じ一日、すなわち第十二の月、アダルの月の十三日と定められた。
12on one day in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
13この文書の写しは、すべての民に公示される法令として各州で発布され、ユダヤ人がその日に敵へ報復する備えをするよう命じた。
13A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that the Jews should be ready for that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
14王室の駿馬に乗る急使たちは、王命に促され、急いで出発した。法令はスサの宮殿でも発布された。
14So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
15モルデカイは青と白の王服を着て、大きな金の冠をかぶり、上等の亜麻布と紫の外套をまとって、王の前から出て来た。スサの町は歓声を上げ、喜びに満ちた。
15Mordecai went out of the presence of the king in royal clothing of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a robe of fine linen and purple; and the city of Susa shouted and was glad.
16ユダヤ人には光と喜び、歓喜と誉れがあった。
16The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.
17王の命令と法令が届いたどの州、どの町でも、ユダヤ人には喜びと歓喜、祝宴と祝いの日があった。地の諸民族の多くがユダヤ人となった。ユダヤ人への恐れが彼らをとらえたからである。
17In every province and in every city, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness, joy, a feast and a holiday. Many from among the peoples of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews had fallen on them.
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