Ester 10

BIBLIA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 El rey Asuero impuso un tributo al país y a las islas del mar.	1 The king passed that night without sleep, and so he ordered the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought to him. And when they were reading them before him,
2 Todas las obras de su poder y su vigor y el relato del encumbramiento de Mardoqueo, a quien el rey enalteció, ¿no están escritas en las Crónicas de los reyes de los medos y los persas?	2 they came to that place where it had been written, how Mordecai had reported the treachery of Bigthan and Teresh the eunuchs, who desired to cut the throat of king Artaxerxes.
3 Pues el judío mardoqueo era el segundo después del rey, persona importante entre los judíos, amado por la multitud de sus hermanos, preocupado por el bien de su pueblo y procurador de la paz de su raza. (*Ester 10:3-a) Mardoqueo dijo: «¡De Dios ha venido todo esto! (*Ester 10:3-b) Porque haciendo memoria del sueño que tuve, ninguna de aquellas cosas ha dejado de cumplirse: (*Ester 10:3-c) ni la pequeña fuente, convertida en río, ni la luz, ni el sol, ni el agua abudante. El río es Ester, a quien el rey hizo esposa y reina. (*Ester 10:3-d) Los dragones somos yo y Amán. (*Ester 10:3-e) Los pueblos son los que se reunieron para destruir el nombre judío. (*Ester 10:3-f) Mi pueblo es Israel, que clamó a Dios y fue salvado. Salvó el Señor a su pueblo, el Señor nos liberó de todos estos males; obró Dios grandes señales y prodigios como nunca los hubo en los demás pueblos. (*Ester 10:3-g) Por eso, Dios ha marcado dos suertes una para su pueblo y otra para los pueblos restantes; (*Ester 10:3-h) y estas dos suertes se han cumplido en la hora, ocasión y día determinados en presencia de Dios y de todos los pueblos. (*Ester 10:3-i) Dios entonces se acordó de su pueblo y dictó sentencia a favor de su heredad; (*Ester 10:3-k) para éstos, los días catorce y qunince del mes de Adar serán días de asamblea, de alegría y gozo delante de Dios, por todas las generaciones para siempre, en su pueblo Israel». (*Ester 10:3-l) En el año cuarto del reinado de Tolomeo y Cleopatra, Dositeo, que decía ser sacerdote y levita, y su hijo Tolomeo, trajeron la presente carta relativa a los Purim. Aseguraron que era auténtica y que había sido traducida por Lisímaco, hijo de Tolomeo, de la ciudad de Jerusalén.	3 When the king had heard this, he said, “What honor and reward has Mordecai been given for this fidelity?” His servants and ministers said to him, “He has received no compensation at all.”
	4 And immediately the king said, “Who is in the atrium?” For, you see, Haman was entering the inner atrium of the king’s house to suggest to the king that he should order Mordecai to be hanged on the gallows, which had been prepared for him.
	5 The servants answered, “Haman is standing in the atrium.” And the king said, “Let him enter.”
	6 And when he had entered, he said to him, “What ought to be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” But Haman, thinking in his heart and supposing that the king would honor no one else but himself,
	7 answered, “The man whom the king wishes to honor,
	8 ought to be clothed with the king’s apparel, and be set upon the horse that the king rides, and receive the royal crown upon his head.
	9 And let the first of the king’s rulers and sovereigns hold his horse, and, as they advance through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say, ‘Thus shall he be honored, whom the king decides to honor.’ ”
	10 And the king said to him, “Hurry, take the robe and the horse, and do as you have said to Mordecai the Jew, who sits in front of the gate of the palace. Be careful not to omit any of those things which you have mentioned.”
	11 And so Haman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mordecai in the street of the city, and setting him on the horse, he went before him and cried out, “He is worthy of this honor, whom the king has decided to honor.”
	12 And Mordecai returned to the palace door. And Haman hurried to go to his house, mourning and hiding his head.
	13 As they were still speaking, the king’s eunuchs arrived and compelled him to go quickly to the feast, which the queen had prepared.