Ester 7

1 So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. 2 The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, "What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed."

3 Then Esther the queen answered, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request. 4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss."

5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, "Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?"

6 Esther said, "An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!"

Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen. 7 The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king. 8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?" As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

9 Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king, said, "Behold, the gallows fifty cubits*7:9 A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters. high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house."

The king said, "Hang him on it!"

10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

1 Heoi, kua tae te kīngi rāua ko Hāmana ki te hākari, ki te kuīni, ki a Ehetere, 2 ā, ka mea anō te kīngi ki a Ehetere i te rua o ngā rā, i te mea e inu wāina ana, "He aha tāu e mea nei māu, e Kuīni Ehetere? Ka hoatu hoki ki a koe. He aha hoki tāu e tono ai? Ahakoa ko te hāwhe o te kīngitanga, ka meatia."

3 Kātahi ka whakautu a Kuīni Ehetere, ka mea, "Ki te mea kua manakohia ahau e koe, e te kīngi, ā, ki te pai te kīngi; ko tāku e mea ai māku, ko ahau kia whakaorangia, ko tāku e tono nei māku, ko tōku iwi. 4 Kua oti hoki mātou, ahau me tōku iwi, te hoko kia whakangaromia, kia whakamatea, kia hunā. Otiia me i hokona mātou hei pononga tāne, hei pononga wāhine, kua whakarongo puku ahau. E kore anō ia e rite i te hoariri ngā mea a te kīngi ka maumauria nei."

5 Kātahi ka utua e Kīngi Ahahueruha, ka mea ki a Kuīni Ehetere, "Ko wai rā? Kei hea rā te tangata i pokanoa nei tōna ngākau ki te mea i tēnei mea?"

6 Anō rā ko Ehetere, "He hoariri, he hoa whawhai, anei ko te Hāmana kino nei." Kātahi ka mataku a Hāmana i te aroaro o te kīngi rāua ko te kuīni. 7 Nā, whakatika ana te kīngi, i te inumanga wāina, he riri hoki nōna, ā, haere ana ki te kāri o te whare. Ko Hāmana hoki, tū tonu ki te īnoi ki a Kuīni Ehetere mōna kia whakaorangia; i kite hoki ia kua takoto te hē mōna i te kīngi.

8 Kātahi ka hoki te kīngi i te kāri o te whare ki te whare inu wāina, nā, ko Hāmana kua takoto ki te takotoranga o Ehetere.

Kātahi ka mea te kīngi, "E takotoria anō rānei e ia te kuīni i tōku aroaro i te whare?"

Puta ana te kupu i te māngai o te kīngi, ka hīpokina e rātou te mata o Hāmana. 9 Kātahi ka mea a Harapona, tētahi o ngā rangatira rūma i te aroaro o te kīngi, "Nanā, te tārawa e rima tekau whatīanga te tiketike, i hangā e Hāmana mō Mororekai, nāna nei te kupu pai mō te kīngi, e tū rā i te whare o Hāmana."

Anō rā ko te kīngi, "Tāronatia ia ki runga." 10 Heoi, tāronatia ana a Hāmana ki runga ki te tārawa i oti rā i a ia mō Mororekai, ā, ka māriri iho te riri o te kīngi.