Ester 6

Ka Whakahōnoretia a Mororekai e te Kīngi

1 I taua pō kīhai i moe te kīngi, ā, ka mea kia kawea mai te pukapuka whakamahara ki ngā meatanga o ngā rā. Nā, ka kōrerotia ki te aroaro o te kīngi. 2 Nā, ka kitea, kua oti te tuhituhi te whakaatu a Mororekai mō Pikitana rāua ko Terehe, mō ngā rangatira rūma tokorua a te kīngi, he kaitiaki tatau, i whai rāua kia pā te ringa ki a Kīngi Ahahueruha.

3 Nā, ka mea te kīngi, "He aha te hōnore, te korōria, i whiwhi ai a Mororekai mō tēnei?"

Anō rā ko ngā tāngata a te kīngi i mahi nei ki a ia, "Kīhai tētahi mea i meatia ki a ia."

4 Nā, ka mea te kīngi, "Ko wai kei te marae?" Nā, tērā a Hāmana kua tae mai ki te marae o waho o te whare o te kīngi, ki te kōrero ki te kīngi, kia tāronatia a Mororekai ki runga ki te tārawa kua oti te hanga mōna.

5 Nā, ka mea ngā tāngata a te kīngi ki a ia, "Ko Hāmana tēnei e tū mai nei i te marae."

Anō rā ko te kīngi, "Kia haere mai ia."

6 Heoi, ka haere mai a Hāmana. Nā, ka mea te kīngi ki a ia, "Ko te aha kia meatia ki tā te kīngi tangata e pai ai kia whakahōnoretia?"

Nā, ko te meatanga ake a Hāmana i roto i tōna ngākau, "Ko wai atu i ahau tā te kīngi e pai ai kia whakahōnoretia?" 7 Nā, ka mea a Hāmana ki te kīngi, "Mō tā te kīngi tangata e pai ai kia whakahōnoretia, 8 me kawe mai ngā kākahu kīngi, e kākahu nei te kīngi, me te hōiho anō e ekengia ana e te kīngi, pōtae rawa he karauna kīngi ki tōna mātenga. 9 Nā, ka hoatu taua kākahu me te hōiho ki te ringa o tētahi o ngā tino rangatira a te kīngi, kia whakakākahuria atu ki te tangata e pai ai te kīngi kia whakahōnoretia; nā, ka mea i a ia kia eke i runga i te hōiho i te waharoa o te pā, ka karanga haere ai i mua i a ia, ‘Ka pēneitia te tangata e pai ai te kīngi kia whakahōnoretia.’ "

10 Kātahi ka mea te kīngi ki a Hāmana, "Kia hohoro tāu tiki atu i te kākahu, i te hōiho, i tāu i kī nā, ka pērā ai ki a Mororekai, ki te Hūrai, e noho nei i te Kūwaha o te Kīngi. Kei taka tētahi kupu o ngā mea katoa i kōrerotia e koe."

11 Kātahi ka tīkina e Hāmana te kākahu, me te hōiho, ā, whakakākahuria ana e ia a Mororekai, ārahina ana i runga i te hōiho i te waharoa o te pā, me te karanga anō i tōna aroaro, "Ka pēneitia te tangata e pai ai te kīngi kia whakahōnoretia."

12 Nā, hoki ana a Mororekai ki te Kūwaha o te Kīngi; ko Hāmana ia i hohoro ki tōna whare, pōuri tonu, hīpoki rawa te māhunga. 13 Nā, ka kōrerotia e Hāmana ki tāna wahine, ki a Herehe, ki ōna hoa katoa ngā mea katoa i pā ki a ia.

Kātahi āna tāngata mōhio, rātou ko tāna wahine, ko Herehe, ka mea ki a ia, "Ki te mea nō ngā uri o ngā Hūrai a Mororekai, kua tīmata nā koe te hinga i tōna aroaro, e kore koe e kaha i a ia, engari, ka hinga rawa koe i tōna aroaro."

Ka Whakamatea a Hāmana

14 I a rātou e kōrero ana ki a ia, ka tae mai ngā rangatira rūma a te kīngi, pōrangi tonu, hei ārahi mō Hāmana ki te hākari i takā e Ehetere.

1 On that night could not the king sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus. 3 And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him. 4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5 And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6 So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself? 7 And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor, 8 let royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and on the head of which a crown royal is set: 9 and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. 11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor. 12 And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered. 13 And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him. 14 While they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.