Esther 4
King James Version with ApocryphaTranslation
King James Version with Apocrypha
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1When Mordecai perceived 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;
1末底改 知道所做的這一切事，就撕裂衣服，穿麻衣，蒙灰塵，在城中行走，痛哭哀號。
2And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
2到了朝門前 停住腳步 ，因為穿麻衣的不可進朝門。
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.
3王的諭旨所到的各省各處， 猶大 人大大悲哀，禁食哭泣哀號，穿麻衣躺在灰中的甚多。
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.
4王后 以斯帖 的宮女和太監來把這事告訴 以斯帖 ，她甚是憂愁，就送衣服給 末底改 穿，要他脫下麻衣，他卻不受。
5Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was , and why it was .
5以斯帖 就把王所派伺候她的一個太監，名叫 哈他革 召來，吩咐他去見 末底改 ，要知道這是甚麼事，是甚麼緣故。
6So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.
6於是 哈他革 出到朝門前的寬闊處見 末底改 。
7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto 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.
7末底改 將自己所遇的事，並 哈曼 為滅絕 猶大 人應許捐入王庫的銀數都告訴了他；
8Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew 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.
8又將所抄寫傳遍 書珊 城要滅絕 猶大 人的旨意交給 哈他革 ，要給 以斯帖 看，又要給她說明，並囑咐她進去見王，為本族的人在王面前懇切祈求。
9And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
9哈他革 回來，將 末底改 的話告訴 以斯帖 ；
10¶ Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai;
10以斯帖 就吩咐 哈他革 去見 末底改 ， 說 ：
11All 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 of his to put him 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.
11「王的一切臣僕和各省的人民都知道有一個定例：若不蒙召，擅入內院見王的，無論男女必被治死；除非王向他伸出金杖，不得存活。現在我沒有蒙召進去見王已經三十日了。」
12And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
12人就把 以斯帖 這話告訴 末底改 。
13Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews.
13末底改 託人回覆 以斯帖 說：「你莫想在王宮裏強過一切 猶大 人，得免這禍。
14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
14此時你若閉口不言， 猶大 人必從別處得解脫，蒙拯救；你和你父家必致滅亡。焉知你得了王后的位分不是為現今的機會嗎？」
15¶ Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer ,
15以斯帖 就吩咐人回報 末底改 說：
16Go, 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 likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
16「你當去招聚 書珊 城所有的 猶大 人，為我禁食三晝三夜，不吃不喝；我和我的宮女也要這樣禁食。然後我違例進去見王，我若死就死吧！」
17So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
17於是 末底改 照 以斯帖 一切所吩咐的去行。
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