¹Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.

¹A Mardocheus zvedel všetko, čo sa stalo. Vtedy roztrhol Mardocheus svoje rúcho a obliekol smútočné rúcho drsné a popol a vyjdúc do prostred mesta kričal velikým krikom a žalostným.

²He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

²A prišiel až pred bránu kráľovu! Lebo nebolo dovolené vojsť do brány kráľovej v smútočnom vreci.

³In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

³A vo všetkých krajinách ako i na každom mieste, kam došlo slovo kráľovo a jeho zákon, mali Židia veliký smútok a pôst a plakali a kvílili, a mnohí mali postlané vrece a popol.

⁴Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.

⁴Vtedy prišly dievčiny Esterine a jej komorníci a oznámili jej to. A kráľovná sa veľmi zarmútila, bolestne, a poslala šaty obliecť Mardochea a sňať jeho vrece s neho, ale neprijal.

⁵Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.

⁵Vtedy zavolajúc si Ester Hatacha, jedného z komorníkov kráľových, ktorého bol postavil k nej, aby jej slúžil, rozkázala mu odísť k Mardocheovi, aby zvedel, čo je to, a prečo je to.

⁶So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.

⁶A Hatach vyšiel za Mardocheom na ulicu mesta, ktorá bola pred bránou kráľovou.

⁷Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.

⁷A Mardocheus mu oznámil všetko, čo sa mu prihodilo, aj o sume striebra, o ktorom povedal Háman, že ho odváži a pridá ku pokladom kráľovým za Židov, aby ich zahubili.

⁸He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him, for her people.

⁸A dal mu aj odpis písma zákona, ktorý bol vydaný v Súsane, aby ich vyhladili, aby ho ukázal Esteri a oznámil jej to, a aby jej prikázal vojsť ku kráľovi a žiadať o zľutovanie u neho a prosiť pred jeho tvárou za svoj ľud.

⁹Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

⁹A tak prišiel Hatach a oznámil Esteri slová Mardocheove.

¹⁰Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:

¹⁰A Ester povedala Hatachovi a rozkázala mu odísť k Mardocheovi a povedať mu:

¹¹“All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, know, that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”

¹¹Všetci služobníci kráľovi i ľud krajín kráľových vedia o tom, že nech by to bol ktokoľvek, či muž či žena, kto by vošiel ku kráľovi do vnútorného dvora, kto by nebol volaný, jeden a ten istý zákon platí o ňom: zabiť ho, krome toho, proti komu by kráľ vystrel zlatú berlu, aby žil; a ja som nebola volaná, aby som vošla ku kráľovi, toto už tridsať dní.

¹²They told to Mordecai Esther’s words.

¹²Ale keď oznámili Mardocheovi slová Esterine,

¹³Then Mordecai asked them return answer to Esther, “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.

¹³riekol Mardocheus, aby dali Esteri odpoveď: Nemysli si vo svojej duši, že sama unikneš v dome kráľovom zo všetkých Židov.

¹⁴For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”

¹⁴Ba ak budeš naozaj mlčať v tento čas, dostaví sa Židom z iného miesta úľava a vyslobodenie, a ty a dom tvojho otca zahyniete. A kto vie, či práve pre čas, ako je toto, neprišla si ku kráľovstvu!

¹⁵Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,

¹⁵Vtedy riekla Ester, aby zase povedali Mardocheovi:

¹⁶“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”

¹⁶Idi, shromaždi všetkých Židov, ktorí sa nachádzajú v Súsane, a postite sa za mňa a nejedzte ani nepite tri dni ani vodne ani vnoci, a ja tiež i moje dievčatá sa budeme tak postiť, a tak vojdem ku kráľovi, čo nebude podľa zákona, a jestli zahyniem, zahyniem.

¹⁷So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

¹⁷Vtedy odišiel Mardocheus a vykonal všetko tak, ako mu rozkázala Ester.