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.
1Ko je Mardohej zvedel, kaj se je zgodilo, raztrga svojo obleko in se ogrne z raševnikom in potrese s pepelom in gre ven v mesto ter vpije glasno in bridko.
2He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
2In pride prav do vrat kraljevih; kajti nihče ni smel stopiti skozi vrata kraljeva, oblečen v raševnik.
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.
3In v vsaki pokrajini, kamorkoli je dospelo kraljevo povelje in njegov ukaz, je bila velika žalost med Judi, in postili so se in plakali in jadikovali ter mnogi so ležali na raševini in pepelu.
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.
4In Esterine dekle in njeni komorniki so prišli in so ji povedali o Mardoheju, in kraljica se je silno prestrašila. In pošlje oblačila, da bi se Mardohej vanje preoblekel in raševino dejal od sebe; on jih pa ni sprejel.
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.
5Tedaj pokliče Estera Hataha, enega kraljevih komornikov, ki ga ji je kralj dal v postrežbo, in mu naroči, naj gre k Mardoheju in zve, kaj je to in čemu tako dela?
6So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to city square which was before the king’s gate.
6Hatah torej gre ven k Mardoheju na mestni trg, ki je bil pred kraljevimi vrati.
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.
7In Mardohej mu pove vse, kar se mu je prigodilo, in število srebra, ki ga je Haman obljubil odtehtati v kraljevo zakladnico za Jude, da jih pogube.
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.
8Dal mu je tudi prepis lista s poveljem, ki je bilo izdano v Susanu, da se pokončajo, naj ga pokaže Esteri in ji to naznani ter naj ji veli, da gre noter h kralju in ga prosi usmiljenja ter pred obličjem njegovim milo prosi za ljudstvo svoje.
9Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
9In Hatah pride in sporoči Esteri besede Mardohejeve.
10Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
10Tedaj govori Estera s Hatahom ter mu da sporočilo za Mardoheja, rekoč:
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.”
11Vsi kraljevi hlapci in ljudje kraljevih pokrajin vedo, da je ena postava za vsakega, bodisi mož ali žena, ki bi vstopil h kralju v notranji dvor, ne da bi bil poklican, da tak mora umreti, razen tistega, proti kateremu seže kralj z zlatim žezlom, da ostani živ. A jaz nisem bila pozvana, naj pridem noter h kralju, že trideset dni.
12They told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
12In sporoče Mardoheju besede 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.
13Mardohej pa veli odgovoriti Esteri: Ne misli pri sebi, da se otmeš v kraljevi hiši sama mimo vseh Judov.
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?”
14Kajti ako boš docela molčala v tem času, pride olajšava in rešitev Judom iz drugega kraja, ti pa in očeta tvojega hiša bosta pokončani. In kdo ve, ali nisi za tak čas, kakršen je sedaj, dosegla kraljestva?
15Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
15Nato veli Estera odgovoriti Mardoheju:
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.”
16Pojdi, zberi vse Jude, ki bivajo v Susanu, in postite se zame, da ne jeste in ne pijete tri dni, ne dan, ne noč; tudi jaz s svojimi deklami se bomo enako postile. In potem pojdem noter h kralju, dasi ni po postavi; in ako poginem, naj poginem!Odšel je torej Mardohej in storil vse, prav kakor mu je velela Estera.
17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
17Odšel je torej Mardohej in storil vse, prav kakor mu je velela Estera.