Mordekai ta lombwele Ester, a kwafe Ovajuda
1 Mordekai eshi a uda ashishe osho sha ningwa, Mordekai okwa pombaula oikutu ndele a djala oikutu yeefya, ndele e liunda omute komutwe waye, nokwa ya mokati koshilando ndele ta ingida pombada eendjovo douyehame. 2 Osho ngaha e uya fiyo oposhivelo shohamba, ndelenee inashi itavelelwa omunhu ta i moshivelo shohamba a djala oikutu yeefya. 3 Ndele moitukulwalongo aishe omo oshipango shohamba nomhango yayo ya fika, mwa li oluhodi linene mokati kOvajuda: ve lidilika, va lila nokukema. Vahapu va yala koshi yavo oshako nomute. 4 Ovapiya ovakainhu vaEster nomalenga aye omouhamba eshi ve shi mu shiivifila, omumbada a kwatwa koluhodi linene. Nokwa tuma oikutu, opo Mordekai e i djale ndele e lidule oikutu yaye yeefya. Ndelenee ine i tambula. 5 Opo nee Ester a ifana Hatak womomalenga ohamba, ou a tulwa po kohamba oku mu yakula, nokwe li lombwela li ye kuMordekai a ude osho tashi ti shike nomolwashike e shi ninga. 6 Hatak okwa ya pondje kuMordekai konhele ya lalakana yoshilando oyo poshivelo shohamba. 7 Opo nee Mordekai e mu shiivifila ashishe osho she mu hanga, nosho yo oisiliveli i fike peni Haman a udaneka a yelekele momamona ohamba ofuto, Ovajuda eshi tava hanaunwa po. 8 NaMordekai okwe mu pa eshangululo lomhango ya shangwa muSusa yoku va hanauna po, opo e li hololele Ester ndele e mu shiivifile oshinima osho ndele e mu fininike okuya kohamba a indile onghenda ndele a popile oshiwana shaye kuyo. 9 Opo nee Hatak a ya mo nokwa shiivifila Ester eendjovo daMordekai. 10 Opo nee Ester ta lombwele Hatak ye a lombwele Mordekai nokutya: 11 “Ovapiya aveshe vohamba novanhu vomoitukulwalongo yohamba ve shi shii, nokutya keshe omulumenhu ile omukainhu ta i kohamba kehale lomeni ngeenge ina ifanwa, ta tokolelwa pamhango imwe: e nokudipawa, okuninga ohamba tai mu ulike nepangelodibo layo loshingoldo, a kale e nomwenyo. Ndele pomafiku omilongo nhatu inandi ifanwa ndi ye mo kohamba.” 12 Ndele eendjovo daEster ve di shiivifila Mordekai. 13 Opo nee Mordekai te va lombwele, va nyamukule Ester: “Ino diladila, nokutya ove eshi u li mongulu yohamba to ka xupifwa oove auke mOvajuda, 14 osheshi ove ngeenge to mwena, Ovajuda tava ka mona ekwafo nexupifo pamwe pe lili, ndelenee ove neumbo loye tamu ka hanaunwa po, ndele olyelye e shi shii kashiimba wa pewa oumbada wohamba omolwefimbo tuu eli?” 15 Opo nee Ester okwe va lombwela va nyamukule Mordekai, va tye: 16 “Inda u ongele Ovajuda aveshe ava tava monika muSusa, ndele lidilikeni molwange. Ndele momafiku atatu oufiku nomutenya inamu lya ndele inamu nwa. Naame yo pamwe novapiya vange ovakainhu hatu ke lidilika. Opo nee handi i mo kohamba, osho nande kashi li pamhango, ndele ngeenge ndi nokufya, ondi nokufya.” 17 Ndele Mordekai okwa ya ndele a ninga ngaashi Ester e mu lombwela.
1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry; 2 And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. 3 And in every province, whithersoever 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 ¶ So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.
5 Then called Esther for Hatach, one of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it was , and why it was . 6 So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate. 7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them. 8 Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people. 9 And Hatach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 ¶ Again Esther spake unto Hatach, and gave him commandment unto Mordecai; 11 All the king’s servants, and the people of the king’s provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days. 12 And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words. 13 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. 14 For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
15 ¶ Then Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer , 16 Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast likewise; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish. 17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
