Esther 7
1 Le roi et Aman entrèrent pour boire avec la reine.
So the king and Haman went to feast with Queen Esther.
2 Et, à ce second festin, le roi dit à Esther: Qu'y a-t-il, reine Esther? Quelle est ta requête, quelle est ta demande? Qu'il te soit accordé jusqu'à la moitié de mon royaume.
On this second day, while they were serving wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It will be granted to you. What is your request? Up to half of the kingdom, and it will be granted.”
3 Et elle répondit: Si j'ai trouvé grâce devant le roi, qu'il accorde à ma requête, ma vie, et à ma demande, mon peuple.
Then Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, king, and if it pleases you, let my life be given to me—this is my petition, and I request this also for my people.
4 Car moi et mon peuple nous sommes voués à la destruction, au pillage, à l'esclavage, nous et nos enfants, nos serviteurs et nos servantes. Mais je n'y ai point cru, parce que l'accusateur n'est pas digne du palais du roi.
For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, killed, and annihilated. If we had only been sold into slavery, as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, for no such distress as this would justify disturbing the king.”
5 Et le roi: Qui donc est celui qui a osé faire cette clause?
Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he? Where is this person to be found who has filled his heart to do such a thing?”
6 Et Esther dit: Notre ennemi c'est Aman, ce méchant homme. Or, Aman était plein de trouble à cause du roi et de la reine.
Esther said, “The hostile man, that enemy, is this evil Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
7 Et le roi se leva de table pour aller dans le jardin, et Aman implora la reine; car il se voyait dans le malheur.
The king got up in a rage from the wine-drinking at the feast and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg for his life from Queen Esther. He saw that disaster was being decided against him by the king.
8 Et le roi rentra du jardin, et Aman était tombé sur le lit en suppliant la reine, et le roi s'écria: Va-t-il jusqu'à faire violence à ma femme dans mon palais? À ces mots, Aman eut le visage bouleversé.
Then the king returned from the palace garden into the room where the wine had been served. Haman had just fallen on the couch where Esther was. The king said, “Will he assault the queen in my presence in my own house?” As soon as this sentence came out of the king's mouth, the servants covered Haman's face.
9 Et Bugathan, l'un des eunuques, dit au roi: Aman a préparé pour Mardochée, qui a jadis averti le roi, une potence de cinquante coudées; elle est dressée dans sa maison. Et le roi dit: Qu'on l'y attache.
Then Harbona, one of the officials who served the king, said, “A gallows fifty cubits tall stands beside Haman's house. He set it up for Mordecai, the one who spoke up to protect the king.” The king said, “Hang him on it.”
10 Et Aman fut pendu à la potence qu'il tenait prête pour Mardochée, et la colère du roi s'apaisa.
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's rage died down.
