에스더 6

1이 밤에 왕이 잠이 오지 아니하므로 명하여 역대 일기를 가져다가 자기 앞에서 읽히더니 2그 속에 기록하기를 문 지킨 왕의 두 내시 빅다나와 데레스가 아하수에로 왕을 모살하려 하는 것을 모르드개가 고발하였다 하였는지라 3왕이 가로되 이 일을 인하여 무슨 존귀와 관작을 모르드개에게 베풀었느냐 시신이 대답하되 아무 것도 베풀지 아니하였나이다 4왕이 가로되 누가 뜰에 있느냐 마침 하만이 자기가 세운 나무에 모르드개 달기를 왕께 구하고자 하여 왕궁 바깥 뜰에 이른지라 5시신이 고하되 하만이 뜰에 섰나이다 왕이 가로되 들어오게 하라 하니 6하만이 들어오거늘 왕이 묻되 왕이 존귀케 하기를 기뻐하는 사람에게 어떻게 하여야 하겠느뇨 하만이 심중에 이르되 왕이 존귀케 하기를 기뻐하시는 자는 나 외에 누구리요 하고 7왕께 아뢰되 왕께서 사람을 존귀케 하시려면 8왕의 입으시는 왕복과 왕의 타시는 말과 머리에 쓰시는 왕관을 취하고 9그 왕복과 말을 왕의 방백 중 가장 존귀한 자의 손에 붙여서 왕이 존귀케 하시기를 기뻐하시는 사람에게 옷을 입히고 말을 태워서 성중 거리로 다니며 그 앞에서 반포하여 이르기를 왕이 존귀케 하기를 기뻐하시는 사람에게는 이같이 할 것이라 하게 하소서 10이에 왕이 하만에게 이르되 너는 네 말대로 속히 왕복과 말을 취하여 대궐 문에 앉은 유다 사람 모르드개에게 행하되 무릇 네가 말한 것에서 조금도 빠짐이 없이 하라 11하만이 왕복과 말을 취하여 모르드개에게 옷을 입히고 말을 태워 성중 거리로 다니며 그 앞에서 반포하되 왕이 존귀케 하시기를 기뻐하시는 사람에게는 이같이 할 것이라 하니라 12모르드개는 다시 대궐 문으로 돌아오고 하만은 번뇌하여 머리를 싸고 급히 집으로 돌아와서 13자기의 당한 모든 일을 그 아내 세레스와 모든 친구에게 고하매 그 중 지혜로운 자와 그 아내 세레스가 가로되 모르드개가 과연 유다 족속이면 당신이 그 앞에서 굴욕을 당하기 시작하였으니 능히 저를 이기지 못하고 분명히 그 앞에 엎드러지리이다 14아직 말이 그치지 아니하여서 왕의 내시들이 이르러 하만을 데리고 에스더의 베푼 잔치에 빨리 나아가니라

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. 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. 3The king said, “What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.” 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. 5The king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.” The king said, “Let him come in.” 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?” 7Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor, 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 crown royal is set. 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 shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’” 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.” 11Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!” 12Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered. 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.” 14While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

1In denzelfden nacht was de slaap van den koning geweken, en hij zeide, dat men het boek der gedachtenissen, de kronieken, brengen zou; en zij werden in de tegenwoordigheid des konings gelezen. 2En men vond geschreven, dat Mordechai had te kennen gegeven van Bigthana en Theres, twee kamerlingen des konings, uit de dorpelwachters, die de hand zochten te leggen aan den koning Ahasveros. 3Toen zeide de koning: Wat eer en verhoging is Mordechai hierover gedaan? En de jongelingen des konings, zijn dienaars, zeiden: Aan hem is niets gedaan. 4Toen zeide de koning: Wie is in het voorhof? (Haman nu was gekomen in het buitenvoorhof van het huis des konings, om den koning te zeggen, dat men Mordechai zou hangen aan de galg, die hij hem had doen bereiden.) 5En des konings jongelingen zeiden tot hem: Zie, Haman staat in het voorhof. Toen zeide de koning: Dat hij inkome. 6Als Haman ingekomen was, zo zeide de koning tot hem: Wat zal men met dien man doen, tot wiens eer de koning een welbehagen heeft? Toen zeide Haman in zijn hart: Tot wien heeft de koning een welbehagen, om hem eer te doen, meer dan tot mij? 7Daarom zeide Haman tot den koning: Den man, tot wiens eer de koning een welbehagen heeft, 8Zal men het koninklijke kleed brengen, dat de koning pleegt aan te trekken, en het paard, waarop de koning pleegt te rijden; en dat de koninklijke kroon op zijn hoofd gezet worde. 9En men zal dat kleed en dat paard geven in de hand van een uit de vorsten des konings, van de grootste heren, en men zal het dien man aantrekken, tot wiens eer de koning een welbehagen heeft; en men zal hem op dat paard doen rijden door de straten der stad, en men zal voor hem roepen: Alzo zal men dien man doen, tot wiens eer de koning een welbehagen heeft! 10Toen zeide de koning tot Haman: Haast u, neem dat kleed, en dat paard, gelijk als gij gesproken hebt, en doe alzo aan Mordechai, den Jood, dien aan de poort des konings zit; en laat niet een woord vallen van alles, wat gij gesproken hebt. 11En Haman nam dat kleed en dat paard, en trok het kleed Mordechai aan, en deed hem rijden door de straten der stad, en hij riep voor hem: Alzo zal men dien man doen, tot wiens eer de koning een welbehagen heeft! 12Daarna keerde Mordechai wederom tot de poort des konings; maar Haman werd voortgedreven naar zijn huis, treurig en met bedekten hoofde. 13En Haman vertelde aan zijn huisvrouw Zeres en al zijn vrienden al wat hem wedervaren was. Toen zeiden hem zijn wijzen, en Zeres, zijn huisvrouw: Indien Mordechai, voor wiens aangezicht gij hebt begonnen te vallen, van het zaad der Joden is, zo zult gij tegen hem niet vermogen; maar gij zult gewisselijk voor zijn aangezicht vallen. 14Toen zij nog met hem spraken, zo kwamen des konings kamerlingen nabij, en zij haastten Haman tot den maaltijd te brengen, dien Esther bereid had.