1. जब मोर्दकै ने जान लिया कि क्या क्या किया गया है तब मोर्दकै वस्त्रा फाड़, टाट पहिन, राख डालकर, नगर के मध्य जाकर ऊंचे और दुखभरे शब्द से चिल्लाने लगा;
मत्ती 11:21

1. When Mardocheus perceaued all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth with asshes, and went out into the middest of the citie, and cryed loude and lamentably,

2. और वह राजभवन के फाटक के साम्हने पहुंचा, परन्तु टाट पहिने हुए राजभवन के फाटक के भीतर तो किसी के जाने की आज्ञा न थी।

2. And came before the kinges gate: but he might not enter within the kinges gate, because he had sackcloth on.

3. और एक एक प्रान्त में, जहां जहां राजा की आज्ञा और नियम पहुंचा, वहां वहां यहूदी बड़ा विलाप करने और उपवास करने और रोने पीटने लगे; वरन बहुतेरे टाट पहिने और राख डाले हुए पड़े रहे।

3. And in all prouinces, countries, and places, as farre as the kinges worde & commaundement extented, there was great lamentatio among the Iewes, fasting, weeping, and mourning, and many lay in sackeclothes and in asshes.

4. और एस्तेर रानी की सहेलियों और खोजों ने जाकर उसको बता दिया, तब रानी शोक से भर गई; और मोर्दकै के पास वस्त्रा भेजकर यह कहलाया कि टाट उतारकर इन्हें पहिन ले, परन्तु उस ने उन्हें न लिया।

4. So Esthers maydens and her chamberlaynes, came and told it her: Then was the queene exceedingly astonied, and she sent rayment that Mardocheus shoulde put on, and lay the sackcloth from him: But Mardocheus would not take them.

5. तब एस्तेर ने राजा के खोजों में से हताक को जिसे राजा ने उसके पास रहने को ठहराया था, बुलवाकर आज्ञा दी, कि मोर्दकै के पास जाकर मालूम कर ले, कि क्या बात है और इसका क्या कारण है।

5. Then called Esther Hathach one of the kinges chamberlaines which stoode before her, and gaue him a commaundement vnto Mardocheus, to know what it was wherefore he did so.

6. तब हताक नगर के उस चौक में, जो राजभवन के फाटक के साम्हने था, मोर्दकै के पास निकल गया।

6. So Hathach went foorth to Mardocheus, vnto the streete of the citie which was before the kinges gate:

7. मोर्दकै ने उसको सब कुछ बता दिया कि मेरे ऊपर क्या क्या बीता है, और हामान ने यहूदियों के नाश करने की अनुमति पाने के लिये राजभणडार में कितनी चान्दी भर देने का वचन दिया है, यह भी ठीक ठीक बतला दिया।

7. And Mardocheus tolde him of al that had come vnto him, & of ye summe of siluer that Haman had promised to waye downe into the kinges treasurie, because of the Iewes if he would destroy them.

8. फिर यहूदियों को विनाश करने की जो आज्ञा शूशन में दी गई थी, उसकी एक नकल भी उस ने हताक के हाथ में, एस्तेर को दिखाने के लिये दी, और उसे सब हाल बताने, और यह आज्ञा देने को कहा, कि भीतर राजा के पास जाकर अपने लोगों के लिये गिड़गिड़ाकर बिनती करे।

8. And he gaue him the copie of the kinges commaundement that was deuised at Susan to destroy them, that he might shewe it vnto Esther, and to speake to her, and charge her that she should go in vnto the king, & make her prayer and supplication vnto him for her people.

9. तब हताक ने एस्तेर के पास जाकर मोर्दकै की बातें कह सुनाई।

9. And when Hathach came in, he tolde Esther the wordes of Mardocheus.

10. तब एस्तेर ने हताक को मोर्दकै से यह कहने की आज्ञा दी,

10. And againe Esther spake vnto Hathach and commauded him to say vnto Mardocheus:

11. कि राजा के सब कर्मचारियों, वरन राजा के प्रान्तों के सब लोगों को भी मालूम है, कि क्या पुरूष क्या स्त्री कोई क्यों न हो, जो आज्ञा बिना पाए भीतरी आंगन में राजा के पास जाएगा उसके मार डालने ही की आज्ञा है; केवल जिसकी ओर राजा सोने का राजदणड बढ़ाए वही बचता है। परन्तु मैं अब तीस दिन से राजा के पास नहीं बुलाई गई हूँ।

11. All the kinges seruauntes, & the people in the prouinces of the king knowe, that whosoeuer commeth within the courte vnto the king, whether it be man or woman, which is not called, the comaundement is, that the same shall dye, except the king holde out the golden septer vnto him, for then he shall lyue: As for me, I haue not ben called to come in vnto the king now this thirtie dayes.

12. एस्तेर की ये बातें मोर्दकै को सुनाई गई।

12. And they certified Mardocheus of Esthers wordes.

13. तब मोर्दकै ने एस्तेर के पास यह कहला भेजा, कि तू मन ही मन यह विचार न कर, कि मैं ही राजभवन में रहने के कारण और सब यहूदियों में से बची रहूंगी।

13. And Mardocheus bad say againe vnto Esther: Thinke not with thy selfe that thou shalt escape in the kinges house more then all the Iewes.

14. क्योंकि जो तू इस समय चुपचाप रहे, तो और किसी न किसी उपाय से यहूदियों का छुटकारा और उठ्ठार हो जाएगा, परन्तु तू अपने पिता के घराने समेत नाश होगी। फिर क्या जाने तुझे ऐसे ही कठिन समय के लिये राजपद मिल गया हो?

14. For if thou holdest thy peace at this time, then shall the Iewes haue helpe and deliueraunce out of an other place, and thou and thy fathers house shalbe destroyed: And who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for this causes sake?

15. तब एस्तेर ने मोर्दकै के पास यह कहला भेजा,

15. Esther bad them geue Mardocheus this aunswere:

16. कि तू जाकर शूशन के सब यहूदियों को इकट्ठा कर, और तुम सब मिलकर मेरे निमित्त उपवास करो, तीन दिन रात न तो कुछ खाओ, और न कुछ पीओ। और मैं भी अपनी सहेलियों सहित उसी रीति उपवास करूंगी। और ऐसी ही दशा में मैं नियम के विरूद्ध राजा के पास भीतर जाऊंगी; और यदि नाश हो गई तो हो गई।

16. Go thou thy way, and gather together all the Iewes that are founde at Susan, and fast ye for me, that ye eate not and drinke not in three dayes neither day nor night, I and my maydens wyll fast likewyse: and so wyll I go in to the king, which thing yet is contrary to the commaundement: and if I perishe, I perishe.

17. तब मोर्दकै चला गया और एस्तेर की आज्ञा के अनुसार ही उस ने किया।

17. So Mardocheus went his way, and did according to al that Esther had commaunded him. (13:8) But Mardocheus thought vpon all the workes & noble actes of the Lorde, and made his prayer vnto him, (13:9) Saying: O Lorde, Lorde, thou valiaunt and almightie king, for all thinges are in thy power: and if thou wilt helpe and deliuer Israel, there is no man that can withstande nor let thee. (13:10) For thou hast made heauen and earth, and what wonderous thing soeuer is vnder the heauen. (13:11) Thou art Lorde of all thinges, and there is no man that can resist thy maiestie O Lorde. (13:12) Thou knowest all thinges, thou wotest Lorde that it was neither of malice nor presumption, nor for any desire of glory, that I would not bow downe my selfe nor worship yonder proude presumptious Aman: (13:13) For I woulde haue ben content, and that with good wyll, if it might haue done Israel any good, to haue kist euen his footesteppes. (13:14) But that I did it because I woulde not set the honour of a man in the steede of the glory of God, & because I would worship none but only thee my Lorde: and this haue I done in no pryde nor presumption. (13:15) And therfore O Lord, thou God and kyng, haue mercy vpon thy people, for they imagine howe they may bring vs to naught, yea their minde and desire is to destroy and to ouerthrowe thy people that hath euer ben thyne inheritaunce of olde. (13:16) O despise not thy portion which thou hast deliuered & brought out of Egypt for thyne owne selfe. (13:17) Heare my prayer, and be mercifull vnto thy people whom thou hast chosen for an heritage vnto thy selfe: Turne our complaynt and sorow into ioy, that we may liue O Lorde and prayse thy name: O Lord suffer not the mouthes of them that praise thee, to be destroyed. (13:18) All the people of Israel in like maner cryed as earnestly as they coulde vnto the Lorde, for their death and destruction stoode before their eyes. (14:1) Queene Hester also beyng in the battayle of death, resorted vnto the Lorde, (14:2) Layde away her glorious apparell, and put on the garmentes that serued for sighing and mourning: In the steede of precious oyntment, she scattered ashes and dounge vpon her head: and as for her body, she humbled it with fasting, and brought it very low: All the places where she was wont to haue ioy afore, those filled she with her owne heere that she pluckt of. (14:3) She prayed also vnto the Lorde God of Israel with these wordes: O my Lorde, thou only art our kyng, helpe me desolate woman, whiche haue no helper but thee. (14:4) For my miserie and destruction is harde at my hande. (14:5) Fro my youth vp I haue hearde out of the kinred of my father, that thou tokest Israel from among all people, and so haue our fathers of their foreelders, that they shoulde be thy perpetuall inheritaunce, and looke what thou didst promise them, thou hast made it good vnto them. (14:6) Nowe Lorde we haue sinned before thee, therefore hast thou geuen vs into the handes of our enemies, (14:7) Because we worshipped their gods: Lorde thou art righteous. (14:8) Neuerthelesse it satisfieth them not that we are in bitter and heauie captiuitie and oppressed among them, but thou hast layde their handes vpon the handes of their gods. (14:9) So that they begin to take away the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordayned and appoynted, to destroy thine inheritaunce, to shut and to stop the mouthes of them that prayse thee, to quench the glory and worship of thy house and thyne aulter: (14:10) And to open the mouthes of the heathen, that they may prayse the power and vertue of the gods, and to magnifie the fleshly kyng for euer. (14:11) O Lorde geue not thy scepter vnto them that be nothing, lest they laugh vs to scorne in our miserie and fall: but turne their deuice vpon them selues, and punishe hym that hath begun the same ouer vs, and set hym to an example. (14:12) Thinke vpon vs O Lord, and shewe thy selfe vnto vs in the tyme of our distresse and of our trouble: strength me O thou kyng of Gods, thou Lorde of all power, (14:13) Geue me an eloquent and pleasaunt speache in my mouth before the lion: Turne his heart into the hate of our enemies, to destroy him, and all such as consent vnto him. (14:14) But deliuer vs with thy hande, and helpe me thy handmayde, which haue no defence nor helper but onlye the Lorde. (14:15) Thou knowest all thinges, thou wotest that I loue not the glory and worship of the vnrighteous, and that I hate and abhorre the bed of the vncircumcised, and of all heathen. (14:16) Thou knowest my necessitie, that I hate the token of my preeminence and worship, which I beare vpon my head what tyme as I must shewe my selfe and be seene, and that I abhorre it as an vncleane cloth, and that I weare it not when I am quiet and alone by my selfe. (14:17) Thou knowest also that I thy handmayden haue not eaten at Amans table, and that I haue had no pleasure nor delight in the kinges feast, that I haue not drunke the wine of the drinke offeringes. (14:18) And that I thy handmayden haue no ioy since the day that I was brought hyther vnto this day, but only in thee O Lorde, O thou God of Abraham, (14:19) O thou mightie God aboue all, heare the voyce of them that haue no other hope, and deliuer vs out of the hande of the wicked, and deliuer me out of my feare.