Esther · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Esther 6 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
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1 That night the king passed without sleep, and he commanded the histories and chronicles of former times to be brought him. And when they were reading them before him,
1 AQUELLA noche se le fué el sueño al rey, y dijo que le trajesen el libro de las memorias de las cosas de los tiempos: y leyéronlas delante del rey.
2 They came to that place where it was written, how Mardochai had discovered the treason of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who sought to kill king Assuerus.
2 Y hallóse escrito que Mardochêo había denunciado de Bigthan y de Teres, dos eunucos del rey, de la guarda de la puerta, que habían procurado meter mano en el rey Assuero.
3 And when the king heard this, he said: What honour and reward hath Mardochai received for this fidelity? His servants and ministers said to him: He hath received no reward at all.
3 Y dijo el rey: ¿Qué honra ó que distinción se hizo á Mardochêo por esto? Y respondieron los servidores del rey, sus oficiales: Nada se ha hecho con él.
4 And the king said immediately: Who is in the court? for Aman was coming in to the inner court of the king’s house, to speak to the king, that he might order Mardochai to be hanged upon the gibbet which was prepared for him.
4 Entonces dijo el rey: ¿Quién está en el patio? Y Amán había venido al patio de afuera de la casa del rey, para decir al rey que hiciese colgar á Mardochêo en la horca que él le tenía preparada.
5 The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
5 Y los servidores del rey le respondieron: He aquí Amán está en el patio. Y el rey dijo: Entre.
6 And when he was come in, he said to him: What ought to be done to the man whom the king is desirous to honour? But Aman thinking in his heart, and supposing that the king would honour no other but himself,
6 Entró pues Amán, y el rey le dijo: ¿Qué se hará al hombre cuya honra desea el rey? Y dijo Amán en su corazón: ¿A quién deseará el rey hacer honra más que á mí?
7 Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,
7 Y respondió Amán al rey: Al varón cuya honra desea el rey,
8 Ought to be clothed with the king’s apparel, and to be set upon the horse that the king rideth upon, and to have the royal crown upon his head,
8 Traigan el vestido real de que el rey se viste, y el caballo en que el rey cabalga, y la corona real que está puesta en su cabeza;
9 And let the first of the king’s princes and nobles hold his horse, and going through the street of the city, proclaim before him and say: Thus shall he be honoured, whom the king hath a mind to honour.
9 Y den el vestido y el caballo en mano de alguno de los príncipes más nobles del rey, y vistan á aquel varón cuya honra desea el rey, y llévenlo en el caballo por la plaza de la ciudad, y pregonen delante de él: Así se hará al varón cuya honra desea el rey.
10 And the king said to him: Make haste and take the robe and the horse, and do as thou hast spoken to Mardochai the Jew, who sitteth before the gates of the palace. Beware thou pass over any of those things which thou hast spoken.
10 Entonces el rey dijo á Amán: Date priesa, toma el vestido y el caballo, como tú has dicho, y hazlo así con el judío Mardochêo, que se sienta á la puerta del rey; no omitas nada de todo lo que has dicho.
11 So Aman took the robe and the horse, and arraying Mardochai in the street of the city, and setting him on the horse, went before him, and proclaimed: This honour is he worthy of, whom the king hath a mind to honour.
11 Y Amán tomó el vestido y el caballo, y vistió á Mardochêo, y llevólo á caballo por la plaza de la ciudad, é hizo pregonar delante de él: Así se hará al varón cuya honra desea el rey.
12 But Mardochai returned to the palace gate: and Aman made haste to go to his house, mourning and having his head covered:
12 Después de esto Mardochêo se volvió á la puerta del rey, y Amán se fué corriendo á su casa, apesadumbrado y cubierta su cabeza.
13 And he told Zares his wife, and his friends, all that had befallen him. And the wise men whom he had in counsel, and his wife answered him: If Mardochai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst not resist him, but thou shalt fall in his sight.
13 Contó luego Amán á Zeres su mujer, y á todos sus amigos, todo lo que le había acontecido: y dijéronle sus sabios, y Zeres su mujer: Si de la simiente de los Judíos es el Mardochêo, delante de quien has comenzado á caer, no lo vencerás; antes caerás por cierto delante de él.
14 As they were yet speaking, the king’s eunuchs came, and compelled him to go quickly to the banquet which the queen had prepared.
14 Aun estaban ellos hablando con él, cuando los eunucos del rey llegaron apresurados, para hacer venir á Amán al banquete que Esther había dispuesto.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Daniel 2:1; Daniel 6:18; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 41:17; Esther 5:8
- 2 Esther 2:21–22
- 3 Ecclesiastes 9:15; Genesis 40:23; 1 Samuel 17:25–26; Daniel 5:16; Judges 1:12–13
- 4 Esther 5:14; Esther 4:11; Esther 5:1; Psalm 2:4; Job 5:13
- 6 Proverbs 16:18; Obadiah 3; Esther 6:9; Proverbs 18:12; Jeremiah 32:41
- 7 Esther 6:11; Esther 6:9
- 8 1 Kings 1:33; Esther 2:17; Esther 1:11; Luke 15:22; 1 Samuel 18:4
- 9 Genesis 41:43; 1 Kings 1:33–34; Zechariah 9:9
- 10 Daniel 4:37; 2 Kings 10:10; Revelation 18:7; Luke 14:11
- 11 Luke 1:52; Esther 9:3; Isaiah 60:14; Ezra 6:13; Esther 8:15
- 12 2 Samuel 15:30; Jeremiah 14:3–4; 1 Kings 21:4; Job 20:5; Job 9:24
- 13 Proverbs 28:18; Hosea 14:9; Genesis 40:19; Daniel 2:12; Daniel 5:26–28
- 14 Esther 5:8; Esther 5:14; Deuteronomy 32:35–36
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