Ester 6— comparação

1Naquela noite, o rei não conseguia dormir. Ele ordenou que trouxessem o livro de registros das crônicas, e elas foram lidas para o rei.

2Achou-se escrito que Mardoqueu tinha denunciado Bigtã e Teres, dois dos eunucos do rei, que eram guardas da porta, os quais tinham tentado pôr as mãos no rei Assuero.

3O rei perguntou: “Que honra e dignidade foram dadas a Mardoqueu por isso?”

4O rei perguntou: “Quem está no pátio?” Ora, Hamã tinha entrado no pátio exterior da casa do rei, para falar com o rei sobre enforcar Mardoqueu na forca que ele havia preparado para ele.

5Os servos do rei lhe disseram: “Eis que Hamã está no pátio.”

6Então Hamã entrou. O rei lhe perguntou: “O que se deve fazer ao homem a quem o rei se agrada em honrar?”

7Hamã disse ao rei: “Para o homem a quem o rei se agrada em honrar,

8que tragam as vestes reais que o rei costuma usar, e o cavalo em que o rei monta, e em cuja cabeça seja colocada uma coroa real.

9Que as vestes e o cavalo sejam entregues nas mãos de um dos príncipes mais nobres do rei, para que vistam o homem a quem o rei se agrada em honrar, e o façam andar a cavalo pela praça da cidade, e proclamem diante dele: ‘Assim se fará ao homem a quem o rei se agrada em honrar!’”

10Então o rei disse a Hamã: “Apresse-se e pegue as vestes e o cavalo, como você disse, e faça isso por Mardoqueu, o judeu, que está sentado à porta do rei. Não deixe faltar nada de tudo o que você falou.”

11Então Hamã pegou as vestes e o cavalo, vestiu Mardoqueu, e o fez andar a cavalo pela praça da cidade, e proclamou diante dele: “Assim se fará ao homem a quem o rei se agrada em honrar!”

12Mardoqueu voltou para a porta do rei, mas Hamã se apressou para sua casa, pranteando e com a cabeça coberta.

13Hamã contou a Zeres, sua mulher, e a todos os seus amigos tudo o que lhe havia acontecido. Então seus sábios e Zeres, sua mulher, lhe disseram: “Se Mardoqueu, diante de quem você começou a cair, é de descendência judaica, você não prevalecerá contra ele, mas certamente cairá diante dele.”

14Enquanto eles ainda falavam com ele, chegaram os eunucos do rei, e se apressaram em levar Hamã ao banquete que Ester havia preparado.

1On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

2It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

3The king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

4The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

5The king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.” The king said, “Let him come in.”

6So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman said in his heart, “Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?”

7Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,

8let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set.

9Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’”

10Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.”

11Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!”

12Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

13Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him.”

14While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.