Esther 4
1 When Mordecai had heard this, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth, strewing ashes on his head, and he cried out with a loud voice in the main street of the city, revealing the anguish of his soul.
モルデカイ凡てこの爲れたる事を知しかばモルデカイ衣服を裂き麻布を纒ひ灰をかぷり邑の中に行て大に哭き痛く號び
2 And he continued with this lamenting, even up to the gate of the palace, for no one clothed with sackcloth is permitted to enter the king’s court.
王の門の前までも斯して來れり 其は麻布をまとふては王の門の内に入ること能はざればなり
3 Likewise, in all provinces, towns, and places where the king’s cruel decision arrived, there was extraordinary mourning among the Jews with fasting, wailing, and weeping, with many using sackcloth and ashes for their bed.
すべて王の命とその詔書と到れる諸州にてはユダヤ人の中におほいなる哀みあり断食哭泣號呼おこれり また麻布をまとふて灰の上に坐する者おほかりき
4 Then Esther’s maids and eunuchs went in and informed her. When she heard it, she was shocked, and she sent a garment to clothe him and to take away the sackcloth, but he would not accept it.
ここにエステルの侍女およびその侍從等きたりてこれを告ければ后はなはだしく憂ひ衣服をおくり之をモルデカイにきせてその麻布を脱しめんとしたりしがうけざりき
5 And she sent for Hathach the eunuch, whom the king had appointed to minister to her, and she instructed him to go to Mordecai and to discern from him why he was doing this.
ここをもてエステルは王の侍從の一人すなはち王の命じて己に侍らしむるハタクといふ者を召しモルデカイの許に往きてその何事なるか何故なるかを知きたれと命ぜり
6 And departing, Hathach went to Mordecai, who was standing in the street of the city, in front of the palace entrance.
ハタクいでて王の門の前なる邑の廣場にをるモルデカイにいたりしに
7 He told him everything that had happened, how Haman had promised to transfer silver into the king’s treasury for the death of the Jews.
モルデカイおのれの遇たるところを具にこれに語りかつハマンがユダヤ人を滅ぼす事のために王の府庫に秤りいれんと約したる銀の額を告げ
8 Also, he gave him a copy of the edict that was hanging up in Susa, so that he would show it to the queen and advise her to go in to the king and beg him on behalf of her people.
またその彼等をほろぼさしむるためにシユシヤンにおいて書て與へられし詔書の写を彼にわたし之をエステルに見せかつ解あかし また彼に王の許にゆきてその民のためにこれに衿恤を請ひその前に順ふことを爲べしと言つたへよと言り
9 And Hathach returned and informed Esther of all that Mordecai had said.
ハタクかへり來りてモルデカイの言詞をエステルに告ければ
10 She answered him, and ordered him say to Mordecai:
エステル、ハタクに命じモルデカイに言をつたへしむ云く
11 “All the servants of the king and all the provinces that are under his realm understand that anyone, whether man or woman, who enters the king’s inner court, who has not been summoned, is immediately to be put to death without any delay, unless the king should happen to extend the golden scepter to him, as a sign of clemency, so that he will be able to live. How then can I go in to the king, when, for thirty days now, I have not been called to him?”
王の諸臣がよび王の諸州の民みな知る男にもあれ女にもあれ凡て召れずして内庭に入て王にいたる者は必ず殺さるべき一の法律あり されど王これに金圭を伸れば生るを得べし かくて我此三十日は王にいたるべき召をかうむらざるなり
12 And when Mordecai had heard this, he again sent word to Esther, saying, “Do not think that you will save so much as your own soul, just because you are in the king’s house and are above all the Jews.
エステルの言をモルデカイに告げけるに
13 And when Mordecai had heard this, he again sent word to Esther, saying, “Do not think that you will save so much as your own soul, just because you are in the king’s house and are above all the Jews.
モルデカイ命じてエステルに答へしめて曰く 汝王の家にあれば一切のユダヤ人の如くならずして免かるべしと思ふなかれ
14 For, if you remain silent now, the Jews will be delivered through some other opportunity, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for this reason, so that you would be prepared for such a time as this?”
なんぢ若この時にあたりて黙して言ずば他の處よりして助援と拯救ユダヤ人に興らんされど汝どなんぢの父の家は亡ぶべし 汝が后の位を得たるは此のごとき時のためなりしやも知るべからず
15 And again Esther sent to Mordecai in these words:
エステルまたモルデカイに答へしめて曰く
16 “Go and gather together all the Jews whom you will find in Susa, and pray for me. Neither eat nor drink for three days and three nights, and I will fast with my handmaids similarly, and then I will go in to the king, doing what is against the law, not having been called, and so expose myself to mortal danger.”
なんぢ往きシユシヤンにをるユダヤ人をことごとく集めてわがために断食せよ 三日の間夜昼とも食ふことも飮むこともするなかれ 我とわが侍女等もおなじく断食せん しかして我法律にそむく事なれども王にいたらん 我もし死べくば死べし
17 And so Mordecai went, and he did everything that Esther had instructed him.
ここにおいてモルデカイ往てエステルが凡ておのれに命じたるごとく行なへり
