以斯帖记 4
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Simplified)
JPS Tanakh (Jewish Publication Society, 1917)
1末底改 知道所做的这一切事，就撕裂衣服，穿麻衣，蒙灰尘，在城中行走，痛哭哀号。
1Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
2到了朝门前 停住脚步 ，因为穿麻衣的不可进朝门。
2and he came even before the king's gate; for none might enter within the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
3王的谕旨所到的各省各处， 犹大 人大大悲哀，禁食哭泣哀号，穿麻衣躺在灰中的甚多。
3And in every province, whithersoever 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.
4王后 以斯帖 的宫女和太监来把这事告诉 以斯帖 ，她甚是忧愁，就送衣服给 末底改 穿，要他脱下麻衣，他却不受。
4And Esther's maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly pained; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai; and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he accepted it not.
5以斯帖 就把王所派伺候她的一个太监，名叫 哈他革 召来，吩咐他去见 末底改 ，要知道这是什么事，是什么缘故。
5Then called Esther for Hathach, one of the king's chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and charged him to go to Mordecai, to know what this was, and why it was.
6于是 哈他革 出到朝门前的宽阔处见 末底改 。
6So Hathach went forth to Mordecai unto the broad place of the city, which was before the king's gate.
7末底改 将自己所遇的事，并 哈曼 为灭绝 犹大 人应许捐入王库的银数都告诉了他；
7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
8又将所抄写传遍 书珊 城要灭绝 犹大 人的旨意交给 哈他革 ，要给 以斯帖 看，又要给她说明，并嘱咐她进去见王，为本族的人在王面前恳切祈求。
8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Shushan to destroy them, to show it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her; and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him, for her people.
9哈他革 回来，将 末底改 的话告诉 以斯帖 ；
9And Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10以斯帖 就吩咐 哈他革 去见 末底改 ， 说 ：
10Then Esther spoke unto Hathach, and gave him a message unto Mordecai:
11「王的一切臣仆和各省的人民都知道有一个定例：若不蒙召，擅入内院见王的，无论男女必被治死；除非王向他伸出金杖，不得存活。现在我没有蒙召进去见王已经三十日了。」
11'All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live; but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.'
12人就把 以斯帖 这话告诉 末底改 。
12And they told to Mordecai Esther's words.
13末底改 托人回复 以斯帖 说：「你莫想在王宫里强过一切 犹大 人，得免这祸。
13Then Mordecai bade them to return answer unto Esther: 'Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
14此时你若闭口不言， 犹大 人必从别处得解脱，蒙拯救；你和你父家必致灭亡。焉知你得了王后的位分不是为现今的机会吗？」
14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then will relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place, but thou and thy father's house will perish; and who knoweth whether thou art not come to royal estate for such a time as this?'
15以斯帖 就吩咐人回报 末底改 说：
15Then Esther bade them return answer unto Mordecai:
16「你当去招聚 书珊 城所有的 犹大 人，为我禁食三昼三夜，不吃不喝；我和我的宫女也要这样禁食。然后我违例进去见王，我若死就死吧！」
16'Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day; I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law; and if I perish, I perish.'
17于是 末底改 照 以斯帖 一切所吩咐的去行。
17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
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