Esters 7
1 So kom då kongen og Haman til drikkelaget hjå dronning Ester.
And so the king and Haman entered to drink with the queen.
2 Då dei sat og drakk vin, spurde kongen Ester sameleis andre dagen: «Kva er di bøn, dronning Ester? Du skal få det du bed um. Kva er ditt ynskje? Um det vore helvti av riket, so skal det løyvast deg.»
And the king said to her again on the second day, after he was warmed with wine, “What is your request, Esther, so that it may be given to you? And what do you want done? Even if you ask for half of my kingdom, you will obtain it.”
3 Då svara dronning Ester: «Hev eg funne nåde i kongens augo, og det tekkjest kongen soleis, så unn meg mitt liv på mi bøn og mitt folk på mitt ynskje!
She answered him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, O king, and if it pleases you, spare my soul, I ask you, and spare my people, I beg you.
4 For me er selde, eg og folket mitt, til å verta utrudde, drepne og tynte. Hadde me vorte selde til trælar og trælkvinnor, då skulde eg tagt; for den ulukka vilde ikkje vore so stor at det var verdt å bry kongen.»
For I and my people have been handed over to be crushed, to be slain, and to perish. And if we were only being sold as servants and slaves, the evil might be tolerable, and I would have mourned in silence. But now our enemy is one whose cruelty overflows upon the king.”
5 Då spurde kong Ahasveros dronning Ester: «Kven er han, og kvar er han, den som hev våga seg til å gjera sovore?»
And king Artaxerxes answered and said, “Who is this, and of what power, that he would dare to do these things?”
6 Ester svara: «Det er ein illtenkt mann, ein fiendesmann, den vonde Haman, som sit der.» Då vart Haman forfærd for kongen og dronningi.
And Esther said, “This is our most wicked enemy and foe: Haman!” Hearing this, Haman was suddenly dumbfounded, unable to bear the faces of the king and the queen.
7 Kongen reis upp i harm frå drikkelaget og gjekk ut i slottshagen. Haman drygde, vilde tigga dronning Ester um livet; han skyna kongen var fast på å føra honom i ulukka.
But the king, being angry, rose up and, from the place of the feast, entered into the arboretum of the garden. Haman likewise rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his soul, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.
8 Kongen kom attende til drikkelaget frå slottshagen og såg Haman liggja yver kvilebenken som Ester sat på. «Vil du, » ropa kongen, «jamvel her inne i mitt nærvære taka dronningi med vald?» Snaudt var ordi slopne utor munnen på kongen fyrr dei sveipte inn andlitet på Haman.
When the king returned from the arboretum of the garden and entered into the place of the feast, he found Haman collapsed on the couch on which Esther lay, and he said, “And now he wishes to oppress the queen, in my presence, in my house!” The word had not yet gone out of the king’s mouth, and immediately they covered his face.
9 Harbona, ein av hirdmennerne som gjorde tenesta hjå kongen, sagde: «Attmed huset åt Haman stend det alt ein galge, femti alner høg; den let Haman reisa åt Mordokai, som med sine ord gjorde kongen gagn.» «Heng honom der!» sagde kongen.
And Harbona, one of the eunuchs who stood in ministry to the king, said, “Behold the wood, which he had prepared for Mordecai, who spoke up on behalf of the king, stands in Haman’s house, having a height of fifty cubits.” The king said to him, “Hang him from it.”
10 So hengde dei Haman upp i den galgen han hadde reist åt Mordokai. Og kongens harm gav seg att.
And so Haman was hanged on the gallows, which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger was quieted.
