1Naquela noite o rei perdeu o sono. Então ele mandou trazer o livro das memórias das crônicas: e elas foram lidas na presença do rei. 2E achou-se escrito que Mardoqueu havia denunciado Bigtã e de Teres, dois eunucos do rei, da guarda da porta, que tinham procurado matar o rei Assuero. 3Então o rei disse: Que honra e que condecoração se fez a Mardoqueu por isto? E os servos do rei que o serviam disseram: Nada foi feito com ele. 4Então o rei disse: Quem está no pátio? (Pois Hamã tinha vindo ao pátio de fora da casa do rei, para dizer ao rei que enforcassem a Mardoqueu na forca que tinha preparado para ele). 5E os servos do rei lhe responderam: Eis que Hamã está no pátio. E o rei mandou que ele entrasse. 6Quando Hamã entrou, o rei lhe perguntou: Que se fará ao homem a quem rei deseja honrar? Então Hamã pensou em seu coração: A quem o rei desejará mais dar honra que a mim? 7Por isso Hamã respondeu ao rei: Ao homem a quem o rei deseja honrar, 8Tragam o vestido real de que o rei costuma se vestir, o cavalo em que o rei costuma cavalgar, e ponha-se a coroa real sobre sua cabeça. 9E entregue-se o vestido e o cavalo na mão de um dos mais importantes príncipes do rei, e vistam a tal homem a quem o rei deseja honrar, e levem-no a cavalo pelas ruas da cidade, e proclamem diante dele: Assim se fará ao homem a quem o rei deseja honrar! 10Então o rei disse a Hamã: Apressa-te, toma o vestido e o cavalo, como disseste, e faze assim para com o judeu Mardoqueu, que se senta à porta do rei; não omitas coisa alguma de tudo quanto disseste. 11E Hamã tomou o vestido e o cavalo, e vestiu a Mardoqueu; e o levou a cavalo pelas ruas da cidade, e proclamou diante dele: Assim se fará ao homem a quem o rei deseja honrar! 12Depois disto Mardoqueu voltou à porta do rei. Porém Hamã se retirou correndo para sua casa, aborrecido, e com sua cabeça coberta. 13E Hamã contou a sua mulher Zeres e a todos seus amigos tudo o que tinha lhe acontecido; então seus sábios e sua mulher Zeres lhe disseram: Se Mardoqueu, diante de quem começaste a cair, é da semente dos judeus, tu não prevalecerás contra ele; ao contrário, certamente cairás diante dele. 14Enquanto eles ainda estavam falando com ele, os eunucos do rei chegaram, apressados, para levarem Hamã ao banquete que Ester havia preparado.
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.
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