Esther 7
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
1王帶着 哈曼 來赴王后 以斯帖 的筵席。
2And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine: 'Whatever thy petition, queen Esther, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request, even to the half of the kingdom, it shall be performed.'
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 Esther the queen answered and said: 'If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my 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 sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'
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。」
5Then spoke the king Ahasuerus and said unto Esther the queen: 'Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?'
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: 'An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman.' Then Haman was terrified before the king and 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。
7And the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman remained to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against 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。
8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the couch whereon Esther was. Then said the king: 'Will he even force the queen before me in the house?' As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's 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。
9Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king: 'Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.' And the king said: 'Hang him thereon.'
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 they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath assuaged.
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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