Esther 4

1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

Mordokaj doznade za sve što se dogodilo: razdera na sebi haljine, navuče kostrijet, posu se pepelom i prođe posred grada kukajući glasno i gorko.

2 And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Dođe samo do kraljevih vrata, jer s onom kostrijeti na sebi ne mogaše kroz njih proći.

3 And in 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.

U svakoj je pokrajini, svuda gdje se doznala kraljeva riječ i njegov proglas, među Židovima zavladala žalost: postili su, plakali i jadikovali. Mnogima od njih kostrijet i pepeo posta ležaj.

4 So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.

Esterine djevojke i njezini eunusi dođoše da je o tome obavijeste. Kraljica se veoma uznemiri. Posla Mordokaju haljine da bi ih obukao a skinuo sa sebe kostrijet, ali on to odbi.

5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend on her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was, and why it was.

Nato Estera pozva Hataka, jednog od kraljevih eunuha koji joj je bio određen za službu, pa ga posla k Mordokaju da dozna od njega što se dogodilo i zbog čega je takav.

6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai to the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

Hatak ode do Mordokaja na gradski trg, pred vrata kraljeva.

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

Mordokaj mu pripovjedi što mu se dogodilo i podrobno ga obavijesti o novcu koji je Haman obećao položiti u kraljevu riznicu da bi mogao uništiti Židove.

8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to charge her that she should go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.

Dade mu i prijepis naredbe o njihovu zatoru, koja je objavljena u Suzi, da je pokaže Esteri te da joj javi i naloži neka ide kralju: neka ga moli za milost i posreduje kod njega za svoj narod. a "Sjeti se dana siromaštva svoga kad sam te hranio rukom svojom, jer se Haman, drugi čovjek kraljevstva, dogovorio s kraljem da nas usmrti. b Zazivaj Boga, govori kralju za nas i oslobodi nas od smrti."

9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.

Hatak se vrati i donese Esteri Mordokajevu poruku.

10 Again Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment to Mordecai;

Estera odvrati Hataku i naredi mu da saopći Mordokaju:

11 All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whoever, whether man or woman, shall come to the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden scepter, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.

"Svi službenici kraljevi i narod kraljevih pokrajina znaju kako svakoga onoga, bio on muškarac ili žena, koji nepozvan uđe kralju u unutrašnje predvorje čeka jedan jedini zakon: smrtna kazna, osim ako kralj ne pruži takvome svoje zlatno žezlo i poštedi mu život. A ja već trideset dana nisam bila pozvana kralju."

12 And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.

Mordokaju bjehu saopćene Esterine riječi,

13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with yourself that you shall escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.

pa on poruči Esteri: "Nemoj misliti da ćeš se zato što se nalaziš u kraljevoj palači spasiti jedina od svih Židova:

14 For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but you and your father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knows whether you are come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

jer budeš li u ovoj prilici šutjela, doći će Židovima pomoć i spas s druge strane, a ti ćeš s kućom svoga oca propasti. Tko zna nisi li se baš i popela do kraljevske časti zbog časa kao što je ovaj?"

15 Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer,

Estera i opet poruči Mordokaju:

16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast you for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

"Hajde, sakupi sve Židove koji se nalaze u Suzi. Postite za me: tri dana i tri noći ne jedite niti pijte. I ja ću tako postiti sa svojim djevojkama. Tako pripremljena ući ću kralju i unatoč zakonu, pa treba li da poginem, poginut ću."

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

Mordokaj se onda povuče i učini što mu je naredila Estera.