MARTSA 1, 2012, FAMAKIANA

A reading from the book of Esther 3: 1-19

8:1 Estera mpanjakavavy koa, natahotra ny loza nanjo azy, nandositra ho any amin’ny Tompo.
8:2 Ary rehefa nesoriny ny fitafiany mpanjaka, nitafy akanjo fitomaniana sy fitomaniana izy, ary ho solon'ny menaka isan-karazany, nosaronany lavenona tamin'ny zezika nodorana ny lohany, ary nanetry tena tamin'ny fifadian-kanina izy, sy ny lafiny rehetra amin’ny hatsaran-tarehiny, nandrakotra ny volony rovitra izy.
8:3 Ary nifona tamin'ny Tompo Andriamanitry ny Isiraely izy, ka nanao hoe:, “Tompo ô, izay irery no Mpanjakantsika, ampio aho, vehivavy irery, fa tsy misy mpanampy afa-tsy ianao.
8:4 Akaiky ny loza hanjo ahy.
8:5 Efa reko tamin’ny raiko fa ianao, Tompo, nifidy ny Isiraely tamin'ny firenena rehetra sy ny razantsika tamin'ny razany rehetra izy, mba hanana azy ho lova mandrakizay, ary araka izay nolazainao no nataonao taminy.
8:6 We have sinned in your sight, and therefore you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,
8:7 for we have worshipped their gods. Ianao ihany, Tompo ô.
8:8 And now they are not content to oppress us with a very difficult servitude, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols,
8:9 they want to alter your promises, and erase your inheritance, and close the mouths of those who praise you, and extinguish the glory of your temple and your altar,
8:10 so that they may open the mouths of the nations, and praise the strength of idols, and proclaim a worldly king in perpetuity.
8:11 Tompo, do not hand over your scepter to that which does not exist, lest they laugh at our ruin, but turn their counsel upon themselves and destroy him who has begun to rage against us.
8:12 Mitandrema, Tompo, ary asehoy aminay ny tenanao amin'ny andro fahorianay, ary omeo finoana aho, Tompo, Mpanjakan'ny andriamanitra sy ny hery rehetra.
8:13 Omeo teny miendrika ny vavako eo imason'ny liona, ary hanova ny fony hankahala ny fahavalontsika, ka izy roa, ary ny hafa izay miray tsikombakomba aminy, mety ho faty.
8:14 But free us by your hand, and help me, who has no other helper but you, Tompo, who holds the knowledge of all things.
8:15 And you know that I hate the glory of the wicked, and I detest the bed of the uncircumcised, and of all outsiders.
8:16 You know my necessity, that I loathe the sign of my exaltation and glory, which is on my head in the days of my exhibition, and that I detest it like a menstruous rag and do not wear it in the days of my silence,
8:17 and that I have not eaten at Haman’s table, nor has the king’s feasts pleased me, and that I have not drunk the wine of his libations,
8:18 and that your handmaid has never rejoiced, from the time that I was carried here until this very day, except in you, Tompo, Andriamanitr’i Abrahama.
8:19 Andriamanitra ô, izay manana hery mihoatra noho ny zavatra rehetra, henoy ny feon'izay tsy manana fanantenana hafa, ary afaho amin'ny tanan'ny ratsy fanahy izahay, ary vonjeo amin’ny tahotro aho.

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