The Message Bible MSG
The Latin Vulgate VUL
1 So the king and Haman went to dinner with Queen Esther.
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Intravit itaque rex et Aman, ut biberent cum regina.
2 At this second dinner, while they were drinking wine the king again asked, "Queen Esther, what would you like? Half of my kingdom! Just ask and it's yours."
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Dixitque ei rex etiam secunda die, postquam vino incaluerat: Quae petitio tua Esther ut detur tibi? et quid vis fieri? etiam si dimidiam partem regni mei petieris, impetrabis.
3 Queen Esther answered, "If I have found favor in your eyes, O King, and if it please the king, give me my life, and give my people their lives.
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Ad quem illa respondit: Si inveni gratiam in oculis tuis o rex, et si tibi placet, dona mihi animam meam pro qua rogo, et populum meum pro quo obsecro.
4 "We've been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed - sold to be massacred, eliminated. If we had just been sold off into slavery, I wouldn't even have brought it up; our troubles wouldn't have been worth bothering the king over."
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Traditi enim sumus ego et populus meus, ut conteramur, iugulemur, et pereamus. Atque utinam in servos et famulas venderemur: esset tolerabile malum, et gemens tacerem: nunc autem hostis noster est, cuius crudelitas redundat in regem.
5 King Xerxes exploded, "Who? Where is he? This is monstrous!"
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Respondensque rex Assuerus ait: Quis iste, et cuius potentiae, ut haec audeat facere?
6 "An enemy. An adversary. This evil Haman," said Esther. Haman was terror-stricken before the king and queen.
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Dixitque Esther: Hostis et inimicus noster pessimus iste Aman. Quod ille audiens, illico obstupuit, vultum regis ac reginae ferre non sustinens.
7 The king, raging, left his wine and stalked out into the palace garden.
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Rex autem iratus surrexit, et de loco convivii intravit in hortum arboribus consitum. Aman quoque surrexit ut rogaret Esther reginam pro anima sua, intellexit enim a rege sibi paratum malum.
8 As the king came back from the palace garden into the banquet hall, Haman was groveling at the couch on which Esther reclined. The king roared out, "Will he even molest the queen while I'm just around the corner?" When that word left the king's mouth, all the blood drained from Haman's face.
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Qui cum reversus esset de horto nemoribus consito, et intrasset convivii locum, reperit Aman super lectulum corruisse, in quo iacebat Esther, et ait: Etiam reginam vult opprimere, me praesente, in domo mea. Necdum verbum de ore regis exierat, et statim operuerunt faciem eius.
9 Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, spoke up: "Look over there! There's the gallows that Haman had built for Mordecai, who saved the king's life. It's right next to Haman's house - seventy-five feet high!" The king said, "Hang him on it!"
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Dixitque Harbona, unus de eunuchis, qui stabant in ministerio regis: En lignum, quod paraverat Mardochaeo, qui locutus pro rege, stat in domo Aman, habens altitudinis quinquaginta cubitos. Cui dixit rex: Appendite eum in eo.
10 So Haman was hanged on the very gallows that he had built for Mordecai. And the king's hot anger cooled.
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Suspensus itaque Aman in patibulo quod paraverat Mardochaeo: et regis ira quievit.
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