And it came to pass in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king: that wine was before him, and I took up the wine, and gave it to the king: and I was as one languishing away before his face.
Glossa Ordinaria
And it came to pass. Which is the first month of the year, etc., up to to make known his own. He was indeed chief cupbearer; he handed the cup to the king, he performed outwardly an office of gladness, but inwardly he mourned: because the holy city overthrown, etc. Whence: Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, etc.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.