Est 4:1Quae cum audīsset Mardochaeus, scidit vestīmenta sua, et indūtus est saccō, spargēns cinerem capitī: et in platēā mediae cīvitātis vōce magnā clāmābat, ostendēns amāritūdinem animī suī, et hōc ējulātū ūsque ad forēs palātiī gradiēns.When Mordecai had heard these things, he tore his garments, and was clothed in sackcloth, sprinkling ash on his head: and in the street in the middle of the city he was crying out with a loud voice, showing the bitterness of his soul, and going with this wailing as far as the doors of the palace. Est 4:2Nōn enim erat licitum indūtum saccō aulam rēgis intrāre.For it was not lawful for one clothed in sackcloth to enter the king's hall. Est 4:3In omnibus quoque prōvinciīs, oppidīs, ac locīs, ad quae crūdēle rēgis dogma pervēnerat, plānctus ingēns erat apud Jūdaeōs, jējūnium, ululātus, et flētus, saccō et cinere multīs prō strātō ūtentibus.In all the provinces too, towns, and places, to which the king's cruel decree had come, there was huge lamentation among the Jews, fasting, howling, and weeping, many using sackcloth and ash for a bed. Est 4:4Ingressae autem sunt puellae Esther et eunūchī, nūntiāvēruntque eī.Now Esther's girls and eunuchs went in, and reported it to her.
Est 4:4Quod audiēns cōnsternāta est, et vestem mīsit, ut ablātō saccō induerent eum: quam accipere nōluit.Hearing this she was dismayed, and sent a garment, so that, the sackcloth having been taken off, they might clothe him: which he would not accept. Est 4:5Accītōque Athach eunūchō, quem rēx ministrum eī dederat, praecēpit eī ut īret ad Mardochaeum, et disceret ab eō cūr hoc faceret.And Hathach the eunuch having been summoned, whom the king had given her as a servant, she instructed him to go to Mordecai, and learn from him why he was doing this. Est 4:6Ēgressusque Athach, īvit ad Mardochaeum stantem in platēā cīvitātis, ante ōstium palātiī: quī indicāvit eī omnia quae acciderant: quōmodo Aman prōmīsisset ut in thēsaurōs rēgis prō Jūdaeōrum nece īnferret argentum.And Hathach, having gone out, went to Mordecai standing in the street of the city, before the door of the palace: who told him all the things that had happened: how Haman had promised that he would bring silver into the king's treasuries for the slaughter of the Jews. Est 4:8Exemplar quoque ēdictī, quod pendēbat in Susan, dedit eī, ut rēgīnae ostenderet, et monēret eam ut intrāret ad rēgem et dēprecārētur eum prō populō suō.A copy also of the edict which was hanging in Susa he gave him, so that he might show it to the queen, and warn her to go in to the king and plead with him for her people.
Est 4:9Regressus Athach, nūntiāvit Esther omnia quae Mardochaeus dīxerat.Hathach, having returned, reported to Esther all the things which Mordecai had said. Est 4:10Quae respondit eī, et jussit ut dīceret Mardochaeō: Omnēs servī rēgis, et cūnctae, quae sub ditiōne ejus sunt, nōrunt prōvinciae, quod sīve vir, sīve mulier nōn vocātus, interius ātrium rēgis intrāverit, absque ūllā cūnctātiōne statim interficiātur: nisi forte rēx auream virgam ad eum tetenderit prō signō clēmentiae, atque ita possit vīvere.She answered him, and ordered him to say to Mordecai: "All the king's servants, and all the provinces which are under his rule, know that whether man or woman, uncalled, enters the inner court of the king, without any delay he is immediately put to death: unless perhaps the king has stretched out the golden rod to him as a sign of clemency, and so he may live. Est 4:11Ego igitur quōmodo ad rēgem intrāre poterō, quae trīgintā jam diēbus nōn sum vocāta ad eum?How then shall I be able to go in to the king, I who for thirty days now have not been called to him?" Est 4:12Quod cum audīsset Mardochaeus, rūrsum mandāvit Esther, dīcēns: Nē putēs quod animam tuam tantum līberēs, quia in domō rēgis es prae cūnctīs Jūdaeīs: sī enim nunc silueris, per aliam occāsiōnem līberābuntur Jūdaeī: et tū, et domus patris tuī, perībitis.When Mordecai had heard this, he sent word again to Esther, saying: "Do not think that you will free only your own life, because you are in the king's house above all the Jews: for if you are silent now, the Jews will be freed by another occasion: and you, and your father's house, will perish.
Est 4:14Et quis nōvit utrum idcircō ad regnum vēnerīs, ut in tālī tempore parārēris?And who knows whether you came to the kingdom for this reason, so that you might be made ready for such a time?" Est 4:15Rūrsumque Esther haec Mardochaeō verba mandāvit: Vāde, et congregā omnēs Jūdaeōs quōs in Susan repereris, et ōrāte prō mē.And again Esther sent these words to Mordecai: "Go, and gather all the Jews whom you find in Susa, and pray for me. Est 4:16Nōn comedātis et nōn bibātis tribus diēbus et tribus noctibus: et ego cum ancillīs meīs similiter jējūnābō, et tunc ingrediar ad rēgem contrā lēgem faciēns, nōn vocāta, trādēnsque mē mortī et perīculō.Do not eat and do not drink for three days and three nights: and I with my handmaids will likewise fast, and then I will go in to the king, acting against the law, uncalled, and handing myself over to death and danger." Est 4:17Īvit itaque Mardochaeus, et fēcit omnia quae eī Esther praecēperat.So Mordecai went, and did all the things which Esther had instructed him.