Esther 4
1 And Mordecai hath known all that hath been done, and Mordecai rendeth his garments, and putteth on sackcloth and ashes, and goeth forth into the midst of the city and crieth — a cry loud and bitter,
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 cometh in unto the front of the gate of the king, but none is to come in unto the gate of the king with a sackcloth-garment.
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 and province, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, a great mourning have the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and lamenting: sackcloth and ashes are spread for many.
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 And young women of Esther come in and her eunuchs, and declare [it] to her, and the queen is exceedingly pained, and sendeth garments to clothe Mordecai, and to turn aside his sackcloth from off him, and he hath not received [them].
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 Esther calleth to Hatach, of the eunuchs of the king, whom he hath stationed before her, and giveth him a charge for Mordecai, to know what this [is], and wherefore this [is].
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 Hatach goeth out unto Mordecai, unto a broad place of the city, that [is] before the gate of the king,
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 declareth to him all that hath met him, and the explanation of the money that Haman said to weigh to the treasuries of the king 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 and the copy of the writing of the law that had been given in Shushan to destroy them he hath given to him, to shew Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to lay a charge on her to go in unto the king, to make supplication to him, and to seek from 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 cometh in and declareth to 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 and Esther speaketh to Hatach, and chargeth him for 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 servants of the king, and people of the provinces of the king, do know that any man and woman, who cometh in unto the king, unto the inner court, who is not called — one law [of] his [is] to put [them] to death, apart from him to whom the king holdeth out the golden sceptre, then he hath lived; and I — I have not been called to come in unto 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 declare to Mordecai the words of Esther,
エステルの言をモルデカイに告げけるに
13 and Mordecai speaketh to send back unto Esther: 'Do not think in thy soul to be delivered [in] the house of the king, 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 but if thou keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remaineth to the Jews from another place, and thou and the house of thy fathers are destroyed; and who knoweth whether for a time like this thou hast come to the kingdom?'
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 Esther speaketh to send back unto Mordecai:
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 who are found in Shushan, and fast for me, and do not eat nor drink three days, by night and by day; also I and my young women do fast likewise, and so I go in unto the king, that [is] not according to law, and when I have perished — I have perished.'
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 Mordecai passeth on, and doth according to all that Esther hath charged upon 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
