Eseda 4

1 Modigai da amo sia: nababeba: le, bagadewane da: i dioiba: le, ea abula hi gadelai. Amalalu, e da eboboi abula ga: ne, ea dialumaga nasubu ulalu, moilai dogoa amodili bagadewane digini baligili asili,

When Mordecai found out about those [letters, he was so anguished that] he tore his clothes and put on [rough] sackcloth and [threw] ashes over himself. Then he went into the city, crying very loudly.

2 Hina bagade ea diasu logo holei amoga doaga: i. E da ganodini hame golili sa: i. Bai dunu da eboboi abula sanawene ganodini masunu, da sema bagade galu.

He stood outside the gate of the palace, because no one who was wearing sackcloth was allowed to enter the palace.

3 Amola hina bagade Segesisi ea fifi asi gala amo ganodini, Yu fi dunu da hina bagade ea sia: nababeba: le, bagadewane didigia: lu. Ilia da ha: i mae nawane, dinanawane, eboboi abula gaga: ne, nasubua diasa: i.

In every province [of the empire], when the letter from the king was read to the Jewish people, they cried and mourned. They (fasted/abstained from eating food), and wailed loudly. Many of them also put on sackcloth and threw ashes on themselves and lay [on the ground].

4 Eseda ea hawa: hamosu a: fini amola gulusu danai hawa: hamosu dunu da Modigai ea hou ema olelebeba: le, e da ema asigiba: le, se bagade nabi. E da Modigai ea eboboi abula gisa: le, eno noga: i ga: ma: ne, abula eno ema iasi. Be Modigai da amo abula higale, hame lai.

When Esther’s maids and other officials came to her and told her what Mordecai had done, she was very distressed. So she sent to Mordecai [some good] clothes to wear instead of the sackcloth, but he refused to take them.

5 Amalalu, Eseda da hina bagade ea gulusu danai hawa: hamosu dunu afae (ea dio amo da Ha: ida: ge) ema misa: ne sia: i, e da Modigai hihi amo ea bai adole ba: ma: ne, Modigaima asunasi.

Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s officials whom he had appointed to help take care of Esther. She told him to go [out and talk] to Mordecai to find out what was distressing him and why [he was wearing sackcloth to show] that he was grieving.

6 Ha: ida: ge da asili, Modigai da moilai gagoi ganodini, hina bagade ea diasu logo holei gadenene esalebe ba: i.

Hathach went to Mordecai, who was in the plaza in front of the palace gate.

7 Modigai da ema doaga: i hou huluane Ha: ida: gema olelei. Amola Ha: ima: ne da Yu fi dunu huluane medole legelalu, silifa muni 340,000 gilougala: me defei amo hina bagade ea muni salasu ganodini salimusa: sia: i, amo sia: huluane, Modigai da Ha: ida: gema olelei.

Mordecai told him everything that had happened. He told him how much money Haman had promised to give to the government if the king commanded that all the Jews be killed.

8 E da sia: musa: dedei meloa (Yu dunu medole legema: ne dedei) amowane Susa moilai bai bagadega iasili eno fifi asi gala huluanema sagoi, amo Ha: ida: gema i. E da Ha: ida: gema amane sia: i, “Amo meloa Esedama ia masa. Ema amane sia: ma, ‘Di da hina bagade ema asili, ema e da Yu dunu ilima asigili, ili esaloma: ne, ea ili medoma: ne sia: i amo afadenema: ne sia: ma.’”

Mordecai also gave to Hathach a copy of the decree that had been read in Susa, [in which it was stated] that all the Jews must be killed. He told Hathach to show the copy to Esther. He told Hathach to explain to Esther what (it meant/would happen). Then he told him to urge her to go to the king and request the king to act mercifully to her people.

9 Ha: ida: ge da Esedama asili, Modigai ea sia: adoi.

So Hathach returned to Esther and told her what Mordecai said.

10 Amola Eseda da Ha: ida: gema, e da Modigai amoma amane adosima: ne sia: i,

Then Esther told Hathach to [return to] Mordecai [and] tell this [to him]:

11 “Hina bagade da misa: ne hame sia: i dunu o uda amo ema udigili ahoasea, amo dunu o uda ilia da medole legemu. Amo da sema bagade. Dunu huluanedafa da amo sema dawa: Amo bogosu sema amoga hobeamu logo afadafa fawane gala. Hina bagade da ea gouliga hamoi galiamo ema misi dunuma disiagasea, amo dunu ili da hame medole legemu. Be oubi afae amoga, hina bagade da nama misa: ne hame sia: si.”

“There is a law [about people going to talk to the king]. All the king’s officials and all the people in the empire know this law. [In that law it states that] anyone who goes to the king in his inner court without having been summoned by the king must be executed. Only those to whom the king has extended his scepter/staff will not be executed. And a month has passed since the king has summoned me, [so what will happen to me if I try to see him and he doesn’t want to see me?]”

12 Modigai da Eseda ea sia: adosi nababeba: le,

So Hathach [went back to] Mordecai [and] told [him] what Esther had said.

13 e da ema amane sisane adosi, “Di da hina bagade ea diasu ganodini esalebeba: le, disu da gaga: i dagoi ba: mu, amo maedafa dawa: ma.

Mordecai replied, “[Go back and] tell this to Esther: 'Do not think that just because you live there in the palace, you will escape when all the other Jews [are killed].

14 Di da wali se nabasu esoga ouiya: le esalea, Yu dunu ilima gaga: su hou da sogebi enoga misini, ilia da gaga: i dagoi ba: mu. Be di amola dia eda sosogo fi da bogomu. Be nowa da dawa: bela: ? Di da Yu dunu gaga: ma: ne, hina bagade idua ilegebela: ?”

If you say nothing now, someone from some other place will rescue [many of] us Jews, but you and your relatives will be killed. Furthermore, (perhaps [God]/who knows if [God]) has put you here [as queen] (for a situation like this/to prevent this from happening to us)!'” [RHQ]

15 Amalalu, Eseda da Modigai ema amo sia: adole iasi,

Then [after Hathach told this to] Esther, [she] told him to return to Mordecai and say this to him:

16 “Yu dunu huluane Susa amo ganodini esalebe, gilisima: ne sia: ma. Ilia da eso amola gasi udiana amoga ha: i amola hano mae nawane, ha: giwane Godema sia: ne gadoma: ne sia: ma. Na amola na hawa: hamosu a: fini da amo defele hamomu. Amalalu, na da sema mae dawa: le, hina bagadema masunu. Be na da amo hamobeba: le, bogosea, bogomu fawane. Mae dawa: ma!”

“Gather together all the Jews here in Susa, and tell them to (fast/abstain from food) for my sake. Tell them to not eat or drink anything for three days and nights. My maids and I will also fast. Then, I will go to talk to the king. Even if (I am executed/they execute me) for disobeying the law [by seeing him when he does not hold out the scepter/staff toward me, I am willing for that to happen”].

17 Amo sia: nabalu, Modigai da fisili asili, Eseda ea olelei huluane defele hamoi dagoi.

So [after Hathach told this to Mordecai, ] Mordecai went and did what Esther told him to do.