Esther 10
1 ಅರಸನಾದ ಅಹಷ್ವೇರೋಷನು ದೇಶದ ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ಸಮುದ್ರದ ದ್ವೀಪಗಳ ಮೇಲೆಯೂ ತೆರಿಗೆಯನ್ನು ನೇಮಿಸಿದನು.
2 ಅವನ ಅಧಿಕಾರದ ಕ್ರಿಯೆಗಳೂ ಅವನ ಪರಾಕ್ರಮವೂ ಅರ ಸನು ಮೊರ್ದೆಕೈಯನ್ನು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿಸಿದ ಮಹತ್ತಿನ ಪ್ರಸಿ ದ್ದಿಯೂ ಇವು ಮೇದ್ಯಪಾರಸಿಯ ಅರಸರುಗಳ ರಾಜ ವೃತಾಂತಗಳ ಪುಸ್ತಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯಲ್ಪಟ್ಟವಲ್ಲವೋ?
3 ಯಾಕಂದರೆ ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯನಾದ ಮೊರ್ದೆಕೈ ಅರಸನಾದ ಅಹಷ್ವೇರೋಷನಿಗೆ ಎರಡನೆಯವನೂ ಯೆಹೂದ್ಯ ರಲ್ಲಿ ದೊಡ್ಡವನೂ ತನ್ನ ಸಹೋದರರ ಸಮೂಹದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಮರ್ಪಕನೂ ತನ್ನ ಜನರ ಮೇಲನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುವ ವನೂ ತನ್ನ ಸಮಸ್ತ ಸಂತಾನದವರಿಗೆ ಸಮಾಧಾನವನ್ನು ಮಾತನಾಡುವವನೂ ಆಗಿದ್ದನು.
1 And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
2 And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
3 For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
1 Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,
2 Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
3 When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;
4 As I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle;
5 When the Almighty was yet with me, when my children were about me;
6 When I washed my steps with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil;
7 When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
8 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
9 The princes refrained talking, and laid their hand on their mouth.
10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
11 When the ear heard me, then it blessed me; and when the eye saw me, it gave witness to me:
12 Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him.
13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow’s heart to sing for joy.
14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
15 I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame.
16 I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
17 And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth.
18 Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.
19 My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.
20 My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.
21 Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.
22 After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.
23 And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.
24 If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.