Esther 4
1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai tore 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;
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 came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
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 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.
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 So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it to her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he accepted it not.
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 Then 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 learn what it was, and why it was.
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 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai to the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.
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 And Mordecai told him 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.
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 the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to tell 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.
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 Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
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 Again Esther spoke to Hatach, and gave him commandment 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 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 him to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.
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 they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.
エステルの言をモルデカイに告げけるに
13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than 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 thou shalt altogether hold thy peace at this time, then shall there relief and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou hast come to the kingdom 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 Then Esther told them return Mordecai this answer,
エステルまたモルデカイに答へしめて曰く
16 Go, gather 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 to the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.
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 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded 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
