- 王带着哈曼来赴王后以斯帖的筵席。
- 这第二次在酒席筵前,王又问以斯帖说,王后以斯帖阿,你要什么,我必赐给你。你求什么,就是国的一半也必为你成就。
- 王后以斯帖回答说,我若在王眼前蒙恩,王若以为美,我所愿的,是愿王将我的性命赐给我。我所求的,是求王将我的本族赐给我。
- 因我和我的本族被卖了,要剪除杀戮灭绝我们。我们若被卖为奴为婢,我也闭口不言。但王的损失,敌人万不能补足。
- 亚哈随鲁王问王后以斯帖说,擅敢起意如此行的是谁。这人在哪里呢。
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- So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
- And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
- Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
- For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
- Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
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