Esta 4
1 Modeka aliposikia kilichokuwa kimepangwa dhidi yao, alirarua mavazi yake na kuvaa maguni na majivu. Akaenda katikati mwa mji na kulia kwa sauti na uchungu mwingi.
Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
2 Akaenda hadi langoni mwa mfalme; kwa sababu hakuna aliye ruhusiwa kuingia akiwa amevaa magunia.
He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 Amri hii ilipofika katika kila jimbo, kulikuwa na kilio kikubwa kwa Wayahudi, na kufunga, kulia na maombolezo. Wengi wao walilala katika magunia na majivu.
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.
4 Malkia Esta alipopata habari kutoka kwa wahudumu wake, alipatwa na majonzi. Akatuma watu wampelekee nguo Modekai ili avue magunia na kuvaa nguo nzuri, lakini Modekai hakukubali.
Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth, but he didn’t receive it.
5 kisha Esta akamwita Hathaki, mmoja wa wasimamizi wa mfalme, ambaye alikuwa amepewa wajibu wa kumuhudumia. Akamwagiza kwenda kwa Modekai ili afahamu kwa nini Modekai ameamua kufanya hivyo.
Then Esther called for Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs, whom he had appointed to attend her, and commanded him to go to Mordecai, to find out what this was, and why it was.
6 Hivyo Hathaki akaenda kwa Modekai katika mji mbele ya lango la mfalme.
So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square which was before the king’s gate.
7 Modekai akamweleza Hathaki mambo yote kuhusu maangamizi ya Wayahudi yaliyo pangwa na kiasi cha fedha ambacho Hamani ameahidi kuwapa wahazini wa mfalme, ili kuwaua Wayahudi.
Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
8 Na kisha akampa nakala ya mbiu ambayo ilitolewa Shushani kwa uangamivu wa Wayahudi. Alifanya hiivyo ili kwamba Hathaki amwambie Esta achukue jukumu la kwenda na kumuomba mfalme na kumsihi kwa niaba ya Wayahudi.
He also gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given out in Susa to destroy them, to show it to Esther, and to declare it to her, and to urge her to go in to the king to make supplication to him, and to make request before him for her people.
9 Hivyo, Hathaki akaenda na kumweleza Esta kile alicho ambiwa na Modekai.
Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 Esta akaongea na Hathaki na akamwambia arudi kwa Modekai.
Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
11 Esta akamwambia Hathaki, “Watumishi wote wa mfalme na watu wote katika majimbo yote wanafahamu kuwa mtu yeyote aingiae kwa mfalme bila kibali anapaswa kufa isipokuwa yule ambaye mfalme atamunyoshea fimbo yake ya dhahabu. Ni siku thelathini sasa sijaenda mbele ya mfalme.
“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, comes to the king into the inner court without being called, there is one law for him, that he be put to death, except those to whom the king might hold out the golden scepter, that he may live. I have not been called to come in to the king these thirty days.”
12 Hathaki akamwambia Modekai maneno aliyoambiwa na Esta.
They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
13 Modekai akarudisha ujumbe: “usifikiri kwamba wewe utasalimika kuliko Wayahudi wote.
Then Mordecai asked them to return this answer to Esther: “Don’t think to yourself that you will escape in the king’s house any more than all the Jews.
14 Kama ukikaa kimya kwa wakati huu, Mungu ataleta wokovu kwa njia nyingine, lakini wewe na nyumba ya baba yako mtaangamia. Ni nani ajuaye umekuja katika nafasi hii kwa wakati muafaka kama huu.
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
15 Kisha Esta akatuma ujumbe kwa Modekai,
Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
16 “Nenda, uwakusanyea Wayahudi wote wanaoishi katika mji wa Shushani, na wafunge kwa ajili yangu. Wasile wala kunywa kwa muda wa siku tatu. Mimi na watumishi watumishi wangu wa kike tutafunga kwa siku hizo. Na kisha nitaenda mbele ya mfalme kinyume cha sheria. Na kama nitakufa na nife.
“Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Susa, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.”
17 Modekai akaenda na akafanya yote ambayo Esta aliyo mwagiza kufanya.
So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
