एस्तर 4
1 जब मोर्दकैले यी सबै कुरा थाहा पाए, तब तिनले आफ्ना लुगा च्याते अनि भाङ्ग्रा र खरानी लगाए । तिनी सहरको बिचमा गए, र ठुलो सोरले कराए, र विलाप गरे ।
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and strewed ashes on his head, and went out into the city and raised a loud and bitter cry of lamentation.
2 तिनी राजाको ढोकासम्म मात्र गए किनकि कसैलाई पनि भाङ्ग्रा लगाएर त्यसबाट जान अनुमति थिएन ।
He went as far as the king’s gate, but no one could enter the gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 राजाको हुकुम र आदेश पुगेको हरेक प्रान्तमा यहूदीहरूका माझमा उपवास, रुवाबासी र विलासँगै ठुलो शोक थियो । तिनीहरूमध्ये धेरै जानले भाङ्ग्रा लगाए, र खरानीमा बसे ।
In every province, wherever the king’s command and decree went, there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing among the Jews. Many of them sat in sackcloth and ashes.
4 जब एस्तरका युवतीहरू र सेविकाहरू आएर उनलाई त्यो कुरा बताए, तब रानी ठुलो शोकमा डुबिन् । उनले मोर्दकैको लागि पोशाकहरू पठाइन् (ताकि तिनले भाङ्ग्रा फुकालून्), तर तिनले ती स्वीकार गरेनन् ।
When Esther’s maids and attendants told her about Mordecai’s behavior, she was greatly troubled. She sent garments for Mordecai to put on, so that he could take off his sack-cloth, but he would not accept them.
5 तब एस्तरको सेवा गर्न खटाइएका राजाका अधिकारीहरूमध्ये हताकलाई तिनले बोलाइन् । के भएको थियो र यसको अर्थ के हो भनी जान्न उनले तिनलाई मोर्दकैकहाँ पठाइन् ।
So Esther called Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs whom he had appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what it all meant and the reason for it.
6 त्यसैले हताक राजाको ढोकाको सामु सहरको खुला चोकमा मोर्दकैकहाँ गए ।
So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square in front of the king’s gate.
7 मोर्दकैको जीवनमा आइपरेका सबै कुरा, र यहूदीहरूलाई मार्नका लागि हामानले राज्यकोषमा दिने प्रतिज्ञा गरेका सम्पूर्ण चाँदीको मात्राबारे तिनले हताकलाई विवरण दिए ।
Mordecai told him all that had happened to him and the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasury for the destruction of the Jews.
8 यहूदीहरूको विनाशको निम्ति शूशनमा जारी गरिएको उर्दीको नक्कल पनि तिनले हताकलाई दिए । हताकले यो एस्तरलाई देखाउन सकून्, अनि राजाको निगाहा प्राप्त गर्नलाई गएर बिन्ति चढाउने र आफ्नो जातिको पक्षमा उहाँलाई याचना गर्ने जिम्मेवारी तिनले उनलाई दिन सकून् भनेर तिनले यसो गरे ।
Also he gave him a copy of the decree to destroy them, that had been published in Susa, to show to Esther for her information. He also told her to go to the king and implore his mercy and to plead with him in behalf of her people.
9 त्यसैले हताक गए र मोर्दकैले तिनलाई भनेका कुरा एस्तरलाई बताए ।
When Hathach came and told Esther what Mordecai had said,
10 तब एस्तरले हताकसित कुरा गरिन्, र तिनलाई मोर्दकैकहाँ फर्केर जान आज्ञा दिइन् ।
she instructed Hathach to go and say to Mordecai,
11 उनले भनिन्, “राजाका सबै अधिकारी र राजाका प्रान्तहरूका मानिसहरूलाई थाहा छ, कि राजाको नबोलाइकन कुनै पुरुष वा स्त्री भित्री दरबारमा प्रवेश गर्यो भने, त्यसको लागि एउटा मात्र कानुन छः कुनै व्यक्ति बाँचोस् भनेर राजाले आफ्नो सुनको राजदण्ड पसार्नुभएन भने त्यो मारिने छ । म आफैलाई पनि राजाकहाँ नबोलाइएको तिस दिन भइसक्यो ।”
“All the king’s courtiers and the people of the king’s provinces know that for every man or woman who goes to the king into the inner court without being called there is one penalty, death, unless the king holds out the golden sceptre signifying that they may live. It has been thirty days since I have been called to go in to the king.”
12 त्यसैले हताकले एस्तरको कुरा मोर्दकैलाई बताए ।
When Mordecai was told what Esther had said,
13 मोर्दकैले यो सन्देश पठाए, “तिमी राजदरबारमा भएकी हुनाले अरू सबै यहूदीमध्ये तिमीचाहिं बाँच्नेछ्यौ भनी तिमीले नसोचे हुन्छ ।
he sent back this reply to Esther, “Don’t imagine that you alone of all the Jews will escape because you belong to the king’s household.
14 यस बेला तिमी चुप लाग्यौ भने, यहूदीहरूका निम्ति सहायता र छुटकारा अरू ठाउँबाट आउनेछ, तर तिमी र तिम्रो पिताको परिवार नष्ट हुनेछ । यस्तै समयको लागि नै तिमी यो राजकीय पदमा पुगेकी हुन सक्छ्यौ भनी कसलाई थाहा छ?”
If you persist in remaining silent at this time, relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another quarter, but you and your family will perish. Who knows? Maybe you have been raised to the throne for a time like this!”
15 तब एस्तरले मोर्दकैलाई यो सन्देश पठाइन्,
Then Esther sent this message to Mordecai:
16 “जानुहोस्, र मेरो निम्ति उपवास बस्न शूशनमा बस्ने सबै यहूदीलाई भेला गर्नुहोस् । तिन दिन र तिन रातसम्म केही नखानुहोस्, न त केही पिउनुहोस् । मेरा युवतीहरू र म पनि त्यसरी नै उपवास बस्नेछौँ । त्यसपछि कानुनको विरुद्धमा भए तापनि म राजाकहाँ जानेछु, र मेरो नाश हुन्छ भने पनि होस् ।”
“Go, gather all the Jews in Susa and fast for me. Don’t eat nor drink anything for three days and nights. My maids and I will fast as well. Then I will go in to the king, although it is contrary to the law, and if I die, I die.”
17 मोर्दकै गए, र तिनले एस्तरले भनेझैँ सबै गरे ।
Mordecai did everything Esther had directed.
