marca 1, 2012, Reading

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

8:1 Kráľovná Ester tiež, v strachu z hroziaceho nebezpečenstva, utiekol k Pánovi.
8:2 A keď odložila svoj kráľovský odev, obliekla si odev vhodný na plač a smútok, a namiesto rôznych mastí, zasypala si hlavu popolom zo spáleného trusu, a pokorila svoje telo pôstom, a všetky aspekty jej krásy, zakryla vytrhanými vlasmi.
8:3 A prosila Pána, Boha Izraela, hovorí, "Môj pán, ktorý jediný je náš Kráľ, pomôž mi, osamelá žena, lebo niet iného pomocníka okrem teba.
8:4 Moje nebezpečenstvo je blízko.
8:5 Počul som od svojho otca, že ty, Pane, vyvolil Izrael spomedzi všetkých národov a našich otcov spomedzi všetkých ich bývalých predkov, vlastniť ich ako večné dedičstvo, a urobili ste pre nich, ako ste povedali.
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. si len, Ó Pane.
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 Pane, 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 Buďte všímaví, Pane, a ukáž sa nám v čase nášho súženia, a daj mi vieru, Pane, Kráľ bohov a každej moci.
8:13 Daj vhodné slová do mojich úst pred očami leva, a premeniť jeho srdce, aby nenávidelo nášho nepriateľa, aby obaja on, a ostatní, ktorí sa s ním sprisahajú, môže zahynúť.
8:14 But free us by your hand, and help me, who has no other helper but you, Pane, 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, Pane, God of Abraham.
8:19 Bože, ktorého sila je nadovšetko, dbajte na hlas tých, ktorí nemajú inú nádej, a vysloboď nás z rúk bezbožných, a zachráň ma z môjho strachu."

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