Esther 10

Esther 10, Catholic Public Domain Version

1. Truly, king Artaxerxes made all the land, and all the islands of the sea, tributaries.

   Rex vero Assuerus omnem terram et cunctas maris insulas fecit tributarias:

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   And his strength and his authority, and the dignity and supremacy with which he exalted Mordecai, have been written in the books of the Medes and the Persians,

   cujus fortitudo et imperium, et dignitas atque sublimitas, qua exaltavit Mardochæum, scripta sunt in libris Medorum, atque Persarum:

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   and how Mordecai of Jewish birth, was second after king Artaxerxes, and great among the Jews, and acceptable to the people of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking about things which pertained to peace for their descendants.

   et quomodo Mardochæus judaici generis secundus a rege Assuero fuerit, et magnus apud Judæos, et acceptabilis plebi fratrum suorum, quærens bona populo suo, et loquens ea quæ ad pacem seminis sui pertinerent.

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   And Mordecai said, “By God have these things been done.†

   Dixitque Mardochæus: A Deo facta sunt ista.

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   I remember a dream that I saw, which signified these same things, and nothing of this whatsoever has failed to occur.†

   Recordatus sum somnii quod videram, hæc eadem significantis: nec eorum quidquam irritum fuit.

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   The little fountain which grew into a river, and had turned into light and into the sun, and overflowed into many waters, is Esther, whom the king received as wife and whom he preferred to be queen.

   Parvus fons, qui crevit in fluvium, et in lucem solemque conversus est, et in aquas plurimas redundavit: Esther est quam rex accepit uxorem, et voluit esse reginam.

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   But the two dragons are I and Haman.

   Duo autem dracones: ego sum, et Aman.

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   The peoples who gathered together are those who had attempted to erase the name of the Jews.

   Gentes, quæ convenerant: hi sunt, qui conati sunt delere nomen Judæorum.

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   And my people is Israel, who cried out to the Lord, and the Lord brought salvation to his people, and he freed us from all evils, and he created great signs and portents among the nations.

   Gens autem mea Israël est, quæ clamavit ad Dominum, et salvum fecit Dominus populum suum: liberavitque nos ab omnibus malis, et fecit signa magna atque portenta inter gentes:

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    And he commanded there to be two lots, one for the people of God and the other for all the nations.

    et duas sortes esse præcepit, unam populi Dei, et alteram cunctarum gentium.

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    And both lots arrived at the day appointed before God, even from that past time, for all peoples.

    Venitque utraque sors in statutum ex illo jam tempore diem coram Deo universis gentibus:

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    And the Lord remembered his people and had mercy on his inheritance.

    et recordatus est Dominus populi sui, ac misertus est hæreditatis suæ.

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    And these days shall be observed in the month of Adar, on the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with all zealousness and joy, by the people gathered together into one union, throughout all the generations hereafter of the people of Israel.”

    Et observabuntur dies isti in mense Adar quartadecima et quintadecima die ejusdem mensis, cum omni studio et gaudio, in unum cœtum populi congregati, in cunctas deinceps generationes populi Israël.

Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain · Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592)