¹Prideta torej kralj in Haman gostit se pri kraljici Esteri.

¹And the king cometh in, and Haman, to drink with Esther the queen,

²In kralj zopet vpraša Estero drugi dan, ko so pili vino: Kaj je prošnja tvoja, kraljica Estera? in dano ti bo. In česa želiš? Do polovice kraljestva, in zgodi se ti!

²and the king saith to Esther also on the second day, during the banquet of wine, `What [is] thy petition, Esther, O queen? and it is given to thee; and what thy request? unto the half of the kingdom — and it is done.`

³Tedaj odgovori kraljica Estera in reče: Ako sem našla milost v očeh tvojih, o kralj, in ako se kralju vzvidi: Dano mi bodi moje življenje za prošnjo mojo in moje ljudstvo za željo mojo.

³And Esther the queen answereth and saith, `If I have found grace in thine eyes, O king, and if to the king [it be] good, let my life be given to me at my petition, and my people at my request;

⁴Zakaj prodani smo, jaz in ljudstvo moje, da nas pokončajo, pomore in pogube. In ako bi nas bili prodali vsaj za sužnje in sužnice, bi molčala, dasi bi zatiralec ne mogel kralju povrniti škode.

⁴for we have been sold, I and my people, to cut off, to slay, and to destroy; and if for men-servants and for maid-servants we had been sold I had kept silent — but the adversity is not equal to the loss of the king.`

⁵In deje kralj Ahasver in reče kraljici Esteri: Kdo pa je ta in kje je ta, ki ga je obvladalo zlobno srce njegovo, da to stori?

⁵And the king Ahasuerus saith, yea, he saith to Esther the queen, `Who [is] he — this one? and where [is] this one? — he whose heart hath filled him to do so?`

⁶In Estera reče: Zatiralec in sovražnik je tale hudobni Haman. Tedaj se Haman prestraši pred kraljem in pred kraljico.

⁶And Esther saith, `The man — adversary and enemy — [is] this wicked Haman;` and Haman hath been afraid at the presence of the king and of the queen.

⁷In kralj vstane v jezi svoji od pitja vina in gre na vrt pri palači. Haman pa ostane, da prosi kraljico Estero za življenje svoje: zakaj videl je, da mu je že pripravljeno hudo od kralja.

⁷And the king hath risen, in his fury, from the banquet of wine, unto the garden of the house, and Haman hath remained to seek for his life from Esther the queen, for he hath seen that evil hath been determined against him by the king.

⁸V tem se vrne kralj z vrta pri palači v hišo, kjer so pili vino; Haman pa se je bil zgrudil na počivalnico, na kateri je sedela Estera. Tedaj veli kralj: Hoče li še kraljici silo delati pred menoj v hiši? Komaj je prišla ta beseda kralju iz ust, so Hamanu zagrnili obraz.

⁸And the king hath turned back out of the garden of the house unto the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman is falling on the couch on which Esther [is], and the king saith, `Also to subdue the queen with me in the house?` the word hath gone out from the mouth of the king, and the face of Haman they have covered.

⁹V tem reče Harbona, eden komornikov, ki so stali pred kraljem: Saj, glej, stoje pri hiši Hamanovi vislice, katere je Haman naredil za Mardoheja, ki je dobro govoril za kralja. In kralj veli: Obesite ga nanje!In obesili so Hamana na vislice, ki jih je bil pripravil za Mardoheja. In srd kraljev se je pomiril.

⁹And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, saith before the king, `Also lo, the tree that Haman made for Mordecai, who spake good for the king, is standing in the house of Haman, in height fifty cubits;` and the king saith, `Hang him upon it.`

¹⁰In obesili so Hamana na vislice, ki jih je bil pripravil za Mardoheja. In srd kraljev se je pomiril.

¹⁰And they hang Haman upon the tree that he had prepared for Mordecai, and the fury of the king hath lain down.