Книга Есфири 4
1 Мардохей же разумев замышляемое, раздра ризы своя и облечеся во вретище и посыпася пепелом: и скочив в пространную улицу града, возопи воплем великим и горьким: взимается род ничтоже преступивый.
And Mordecai has known all that has been done, and Mordecai tears his garments, and puts on sackcloth and ashes, and goes forth into the midst of the city and cries—a cry loud and bitter,
2 И прииде даже до врат царевых и ста: не леть бо бе ему внити во двор во вретище облечену и пепелом осыпану сущу.
and he comes to the front of the gate of the king, but none is to come to the gate of the king with a sackcloth-garment.
3 И во всяцей стране, идеже показовахуся писания (царева), вопль бе и плачь и рыдание превелие Иудеом, вретище и пепел постилаху себе.
And in each and every province, the place where the word of the king, even his law, is coming, the Jews have a great mourning, and fasting, and weeping, and lamenting: sackcloth and ashes are spread for many.
4 И внидоща рабыни и евнуси царицыны и возвестиша ей. И смятеся услышавши бывшее: и посла ризы облещи Мардохеа и сняти вретище его. И не послуша.
And young women of Esther come in and her eunuchs, and declare [it] to her, and the queen is exceedingly pained, and sends garments to clothe Mordecai, and to turn aside his sackcloth from off him, and he has not received [them].
5 Есфирь же призва Ахрафеа скопца своего, предстоящаго ей,
And Esther calls to Hatach, of the eunuchs of the king, whom he has stationed before her, and gives him a charge for Mordecai, to know what this [is], and why this [is].
6 и посла его уведати от Мардохеа истину.
And Hatach goes out to Mordecai, to a broad place of the city, that [is] before the gate of the king,
7 Мардохей же сказа ему бывшее, и обещание, еже обеша Аман царю в сокровищный дом (положити) десять тысящ талант сребра, да погубит Иудей:
and Mordecai declares to him all that has 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,
8 и списание (повеления) изданнаго в Сусех (граде) на погубление их даде ему, да покажет Есфири: и рече ему, заповедати ей ити молити царя и просити его о людех, поминаюши дни смирения твоего, како воспитана еси в руце моей, зане Аман вторый по цари глагола противу нам на смерть: призови Господа и глаголи царю о нас, да избавит нас от смерти.
and the copy of the writing of the law that had been given in Shushan to destroy them he has given to him, to show Esther, and to declare [it] to her, and to lay a charge on her to go in to the king, to make supplication to him, and to seek from before him, for her people.
9 Вшед же Ахрафей, поведа Есфири вся глаголы сия.
And Hatach comes in and declares to Esther the words of Mordecai,
10 И рече Есфирь ко Ахрафею: иди к Мардохею и рцы:
and Esther speaks to Hatach, and charges him for Mordecai:
11 понеже вси языцы царствия ведят, яко всяк муж или жена, иже аще внидет ко царвеи во внутренний дом не призван, несть ему спасения, точию к немуже аще прострет царь златый жезл, сей спасен будет: аз же несмь звана внити ко царю се уже тридесять дний.
“All servants of the king, and people of the provinces of the king, know that any man and woman who comes to the king, into the inner court, who is not called—one law of his [is] to put [them] to death, apart from him to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, then he has lived; and I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
12 И возвести Ахрафей Мардохею вся глаголы Есфирины.
And they declare to Mordecai the words of Esther,
13 И рече Мардохей ко Ахрафею: иди и рцы ей: Есфире, да не речеши в себе, яко ты едина спасешися во царствии паче всех Иудей:
and Mordecai commands to send back to Esther: “Do not think in your soul to be delivered [in] the house of the king, more than all the Jews,
14 зане аще преслушаеши в сие время, отинуду помощь и покров будет Иудеом, ты же и дом отца твоего погибнете: и кто весть, аще на сие время воцарилася еси?
but if you keep entirely silent at this time, respite and deliverance remains to the Jews from another place, and you and the house of your fathers are destroyed; and who knows whether for a time like this you have come to the kingdom?”
15 И посла Есфирь пришедшаго к ней ко Мардохею, глаголющи:
And Esther commands to send back to Mordecai:
16 шед собери Иудеи иже в Сусех, и поститеся о мне, и не ядите ниже пийте три дни день и нощь: аз же и служебницы моя (такожде) не имамы ясти: и тогда вниду ко царю кроме закона, аще и погибнути ми приключится.
“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 fast likewise, and so I go in to the king, that [is] not according to law, and when I have perished—I have perished.”
17 И шед Мардохей сотвори, елика заповеда ему Есфирь.
And Mordecai passes on, and does according to all that Esther has charged on him.
