Esteres 7
1 Kad nu ķēniņš un Amans nāca pie ķēniņienes Esteres uz dzīrēm,
So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
2 Tad ķēniņš sacīja uz Esteri atkal otrā dienā vīnu dzerot: ko tu lūdzi, ķēniņiene Estere, tas tev taps dots, un ko tu prasi, arī līdz pusvalstij, tam būs notikt.
And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.
3 Tad ķēniņiene Estere atbildēja: ja es, ķēniņ, žēlastību esmu atradusi tavās acīs, un ja ķēniņam patīk, tad dod man manu dzīvību uz manu lūgšanu un manus ļaudis uz manu prasīšanu.
Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.
4 Jo mēs esam pārdoti, es un mani ļaudis, ka topam izdeldēti, nokauti un nomaitāti. Ja mēs būtu pārdoti par kalpiem un kalponēm, tad es būtu klusu cietusi; jo nelaime neatsver ķēniņa traucējumu.
For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.
5 Tad ķēniņš Ahasverus atbildēja un sacīja uz ķēniņieni Esteri: kas tas tāds un kur ir tas, kas to savā prātā ir apņēmies, tā darīt?
And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
6 Tad Estere atbildēja: tas pretinieks un ienaidnieks ir šis niknais Amans. Tad Amans iztrūcinājās ķēniņa un ķēniņienes priekšā.
And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.
7 Un ķēniņš cēlās savā bardzībā no dzīrēm un gāja uz tā nama dārzu. Un Amans stāvēja un meklēja savu dzīvību no ķēniņienes Esteres, jo viņš redzēja, ka ķēniņš par viņu bija nodomājis nelaimi.
But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.
8 Un ķēniņš griezās atpakaļ no nama dārza uz dzīru namu, un Amans bija nokritis pie tā sēdekļa, uz kā Estere sēdēja. Tad ķēniņš sacīja: vai viņš arī pie ķēniņienes varas darbu grib darīt pie manis namā? Kad šis vārds no ķēniņa mutes izgāja, tad Amanam aizsedza galvu.
And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king’s mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
9 Un Arbonus, viens no ķēniņa kambarjunkuriem, sacīja: redzi, Amana namā stāv koks piecdesmit olektis augstumā, ko Amans cēlis priekš Mardakaju, kas runājis labu priekš ķēniņa. Tad ķēniņš sacīja: pakariet viņu pie tā.
And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman’s house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it.
10 Tad tie pakāra Amanu pie tā koka, ko tas Mardakajam bija licis uzcelt. Tad ķēniņa bardzība nostājās.
So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king’s wrath ceased.
