1以斯帖向王奏告哈曼的惡謀王帶著哈曼去赴王后以斯帖的筵席。
1So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
2在這第二次的酒席中，王又問以斯帖：“以斯帖啊，你要甚麼？我必賜給你；你求甚麼？就是一半江山，也必給你成全。”
2The king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, “What is your petition, queen Esther? It shall be granted you. What is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.”
3王后以斯帖回答，說：“我若是在你眼前蒙恩，王若是喜歡，我所要的，是要王把我的性命賜給我；我所求的，是求王把我的族人賜給我。
3Then Esther the queen answered, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
4因為我和我的族人被人出賣，快要毀滅，被殺盡、滅絕了。我們若是只被賣為奴婢，我也必閉口不言，但王的損失是敵人不能補償的。”
4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondservants and bondmaids, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”
5亞哈隨魯王問王后以斯帖，說：“存心這樣行的人是誰？他在哪裡？”
5Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”
6以斯帖回答：“這敵人和仇人，就是這惡人哈曼！”哈曼在王和王后面前立刻驚惶萬分。
6Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7哈曼被掛在自己所立的木架於是王帶著盛怒，從酒席間起來，到御園裡去；哈曼卻留下來求王后以斯帖救他一命，因為哈曼看出王已經決意要加罪與他。
7The king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden. Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
8王從御園回到酒席那裡；那時哈曼正伏在以斯帖所靠的榻上；於是王說：“他竟敢在宮裡，當著我的面污辱王后嗎？”這話一出王口，人就把哈曼的臉蒙住了。
8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
9在王面前有一個太監哈波拿說：“還有，哈曼為那曾經說好話救王有功的末底改，立了一個二十二公尺高的木架，現在正立在哈曼的家裡呢。”王說：“把哈曼掛在上面吧！”
9Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”
10於是他們把哈曼掛在他為末底改預備的木架上；王的忿怒才漸漸止息。
10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.