Esther 7

DOUAI-RHEIMS	NOVA VULGATA
1 So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.	1 Intravit itaque rex et Aman, ut biberent cum regina.
2 And the king said to her again the second day, after he was warm with wine: What is thy petition, Esther, that it may be granted thee? and what wilt thou have done: although thou ask the half of my kingdom, thou shalt have it.	2 Dixitque ei rexetiam in secundo die, postquam vino incaluerat: “ Quae est petitio tua,Esther, ut detur tibi, et quid vis fieri? Etiamsi dimidiam regni mei partempetieris, impetrabis ”.
3 Then she answered: If I have found Favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please thee, give me my life for which I ask, and my people for which I request.	3 Ad quem illa respondit: “ Si inveni gratiam inoculis tuis, o rex, et si tibi placet, dona mihi animam meam, pro qua rogo, etpopulum meum, pro quo obsecro.
4 For we are given up, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. And would God we were sold for bondmen and bondwomen: the evil might be borne with, and I would have mourned in silence: but now we have an enemy, whose cruelty redoundeth upon the king.	4 Traditi enim sumus, ego et populus meus, utconteramur, iugulemur et pereamus. Atque utinam in servos et famulas venderemur:tacuissem, quia tribulatio haec non esset digna conturbare regem ”.
5 And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?	5 Respondensque rex Asuerus ait: “ Quis est iste et ubi est, ut haec audeatfacere? ”.
6 And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.	6 Dixit Esther: “ Hostis et inimicus noster pessimus iste estAman ”. Quod ille audiens ilico obstupuit coram rege ac regina.
7 But the king being angry rose up, and went from the place of the banquet into the garden set with trees. Aman also rose up to entreat Esther the queen for his life, for he understood that evil was prepared for him by the king.	7 Rex autem surrexit iratus et de loco convivii intravit in hortum palatii. Amanquoque surrexit, ut rogaret Esther reginam pro anima sua; intellexit enim a regesibi decretum esse malum.
8 And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.	8 Qui cum reversus esset de horto et intrassetconvivii locum, repperit Aman super lectulum corruisse, in quo iacebat Esther,et ait: “ Etiam reginam vult opprimere, me praesente, in domo mea? ”. Necdumverbum de ore regis exierat, et statim operuerunt faciem eius.
9 And Harbona, one of the eunuchs that stood waiting on the king, said: Behold the gibbet which he hath prepared for Mardochai, who spoke for the king, standeth in Aman's house, being fifty cubits high. And the king said to him: Hang him upon it.	9 DixitqueHarbona, unus de eunuchis, qui stabant in ministerio regis: “ En etiam lignum,quod paraverat Mardochaeo, qui locutus est bonum pro rege, stat in domo Amanhabens altitudinis quinquaginta cubitos ”. Cui dixit rex: “ Appendite eum ineo ”.
10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.	10 Suspensus est itaque Aman in patibulo, quod paraverat Mardochaeo; etregis ira quievit.