Ester 7

BIBBIA CEI 2008	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Il re e Aman andarono a banchettare con la regina.	1 So the king and Aman went in, to drink with the queen.
2 Il secondo giorno che si beveva, il re disse a Ester: «Che c’è, regina Ester? Qual è la tua domanda e quale la tua richiesta? Fosse anche la metà del mio regno, ti sarà data».	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.
3 Rispose: «Se ho trovato grazia davanti al re, sia risparmiata la vita a me, secondo la mia domanda, e al mio popolo, secondo la mia richiesta.	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.
4 Infatti siamo stati venduti, io e il mio popolo, siamo stati venduti per essere distrutti, uccisi e fatti schiavi, noi e i nostri figli, per diventare servi e serve; ma io finsi di non udire, perché quel calunniatore non è degno del palazzo del re».	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.
5 Disse il re: «Chi è costui, che ha osato fare queste cose?».	5 And king Assuerus answered and said: Who is this, and of what power, that he should do these things?
6 Ester rispose: «Un nemico: Aman è quel malvagio». Aman fu preso da terrore in presenza del re e della regina.	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.
7 Allora il re si alzò dal banchetto per andare nel giardino: Aman si mise a supplicare la regina perché avvertiva di essere nei guai.	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.
8 Il re ritornò dal giardino, e intanto Aman si era lasciato cadere sul divano supplicando la regina. Allora il re disse: «Vuole anche fare violenza a mia moglie in casa mia?». Appena ebbe sentito, Aman mutò d’aspetto.	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.
9 Bugatàn, uno degli eunuchi, disse al re: «Ecco, Aman ha preparato anche un palo per Mardocheo, il quale aveva parlato in favore del re, un palo alto cinquanta cubiti, eretto nella proprietà di Aman». Disse il re: «Sia impiccato su quel palo».	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.
10 Allora Aman fu appeso al palo che aveva preparato per Mardocheo. E l’ira del re si placò.	10 So Aman was hanged on the gibbet, which he had prepared for Mardochai: and the king's wrath ceased.