1 In dieselfde nag het die slaap van die koning gewyk, en hy het gesê dat hulle die gedenkskrif, die kronieke, moes bring. En toe dit die koning voorgelees word,
2 vind hulle daar beskrywe dat Mordegai openbaar gemaak het dat Bigt na en Teres, twee hofdienaars van die koning, uit die drumpelwagters, getrag het om die hand aan koning Ahasv,ros te slaan.
3 Daarop sê die koning: Watter eer en verhoging het Mordegai daarvoor te beurt geval? En die jongmanne van die koning, sy dienaars, het geantwoord: Met hom het niks gebeur nie.
4 Toe sê die koning: Wie is in die voorhof? -- juis toe Haman in die buitenste voorhof van die koninklike paleis kom om aan die koning te sê dat hulle Mordegai moes ophang aan die galg wat hy vir hom laat oprig het.
5 En die jongmanne van die koning antwoord hom: Daar staan Haman in die voorhof. Toe sê die koning: Laat hy inkom.
6 Nadat Haman ingekom het, vra die koning hom: Wat moet met die man gedoen word aan wie die koning eer wil bewys? Haman dink toe by homself: Aan wie sou die koning eer wil bewys meer as aan my?
7 Daarom het Haman vir die koning gesê: Die man aan wie die koning eer wil bewys --
8 laat hulle 'n koninklike kleed bring waarmee die koning bekleed was, en 'n perd waar die koning op gery het en op die kop waarvan 'n koninklike kroon gesit is;
9 en laat hulle die kleed en die perd afgee aan een van die vorste van die koning, van die vername manne, dat hulle dit die man aantrek aan wie die koning eer wil bewys; en hulle moet hom laat ry op die perd oor die stadsplein en voor hom uitroep: So word gedoen aan die man aan wie die koning eer wil bewys.
10 Toe sê die koning vir Haman: Neem gou die kleed en die perd soos jy gespreek het, en doen so aan Mordegai, die Jood, wat in die poort van die koning sit; jy moet nie een woord onvervuld laat bly van alles wat jy gespreek het nie.
11 En Haman het die kleed geneem en die perd, en hy het Mordegai aangetrek en hom laat ry oor die stadsplein en voor hom uitgeroep: So word gedoen aan die man aan wie die koning eer wil bewys.
12 Daarna het Mordegai teruggegaan na die poort van die koning; maar Haman het hom gehaas na sy huis toe, treurig en met bedekte hoof.
13 En Haman het aan sy vrou Seres en al sy vriende vertel alles wat hom oorgekom het. Toe sê sy wyse manne en sy vrou Seres vir hom: As Mordegai voor wie jy alreeds begin val het, uit die geslag van die Jode is, sal jy niks teen hom kan uitrig nie, maar heeltemal voor hom val.
14 Onderwyl hulle nog met hom spreek, kom die hofdienaars van die koning aan, en hulle het Haman gou na die maaltyd gebring wat Ester gereedgemaak het.
1 That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king,
2 It came out that it was recorded in the book how Mordecai had given word of the designs of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's servants, keepers of the door, by whom an attack on the king had been designed.
3 And the king said, What honour and reward have been given to Mordecai for this? Then the servants who were waiting on the king said, Nothing has been done for him.
4 Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now Haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.
5 And the king's servants said to him, See, Haman is waiting in the outer room. And the king said, Let him come in.
6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring? Then the thought came into Haman's mind, Whom, more than myself, would the king have pleasure in honouring?
7 And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,
8 Let them take the robes which the king generally puts on, and the horse on which the king goes, and the crown which is on his head:
9 And let the robes and the horse be given to one of the king's most noble captains, so that they may put them on the man whom the king has delight in honouring, and let him go on horseback through the streets of the town, with men crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.
10 Then the king said to Haman, Go quickly, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, who is seated at the king's doorway: see that you do everything as you have said.
11 Then Haman took the robes and the horse, and dressing Mordecai in the robes, he made him go on horseback through the streets of the town, crying out before him, So let it be done to the man whom the king has delight in honouring.
12 And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.
13 And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.
14 While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.