Esther · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Esther 4 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Cuando Mardoqueo supo lo que había sucedido, rasgó su ropa, se vistió con tela áspera y se puso polvo en la cabeza. Salió por el centro de la ciudad, lanzando fuertes y amargos gritos.
1 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 Llegó hasta la puerta del palacio, pero no pudo entrar, porque nadie podía hacerlo vestido con tela áspera.
2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 En todas las provincias a las que llegaban la orden del rey y su decreto, los judíos lloraban, se lamentaban y ayunaban con gran tristeza. Muchos se tendían en el suelo con polvo y ropa de tela áspera.
3 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 Las sirvientas y los servidores de Ester fueron a contarle lo sucedido. La reina se angustió mucho y envió ropa para que Mardoqueo se quitara la de tela áspera y se vistiera, pero él no la aceptó.
4 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 Entonces Ester llamó a Hatac, uno de los eunucos del rey que este había puesto a su servicio. Le ordenó que fuera a ver a Mardoqueo y averiguara qué le pasaba y por qué.
5 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 Hatac salió a ver a Mardoqueo en la plaza de la ciudad, frente a la puerta del palacio.
6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square which was before the king’s gate.
7 Mardoqueo le contó todo lo sucedido y le dijo cuánto dinero había prometido Amán entregar al tesoro real para exterminar a los judíos.
7 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 También le dio una copia del decreto anunciado en Susa que ordenaba exterminarlos. Le pidió que se la mostrara a Ester y le explicara lo ocurrido. Debía decirle que se presentara ante el rey para pedirle misericordia e interceder por su pueblo.
8 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 Hatac regresó y le contó a Ester lo que había dicho Mardoqueo.
9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 Ester envió a Hatac con este mensaje para Mardoqueo:
10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
11 «Todos los servidores del rey y los habitantes de las provincias del reino saben que hay una sola ley para cualquier hombre o mujer que se presente ante el rey en el patio interior sin haber sido llamado: debe morir. Solo conserva la vida aquel a quien el rey le extiende su cetro de oro. Pero hace treinta días que el rey no me llama para presentarme ante él».
11 “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 Le comunicaron a Mardoqueo las palabras de Ester.
12 They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
13 Él mandó responderle: «No pienses que, por estar en el palacio, estarás a salvo de lo que les espera a los demás judíos.
13 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◆ Si ahora guardas silencio, la ayuda y la salvación de los judíos vendrán de otro lugar, pero tú y la familia de tu padre morirán. ¿Quién sabe si llegaste a ser reina precisamente para un momento como este?».
14 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 Ester mandó esta respuesta a Mardoqueo:
15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
16 «Ve y reúne a todos los judíos que están en Susa. Ayunen por mí, sin comer ni beber durante tres días, ni de noche ni de día. Mis sirvientas y yo haremos lo mismo. Después me presentaré ante el rey, aunque sea contra la ley. Y si he de morir, moriré».
16 “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 Mardoqueo se fue e hizo todo lo que Ester había indicado.
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
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Hathach
One of the king’s eunuchs appointed to Esther, who carried messages between Esther and Mordecai about the decree against the Jews.
Cited in the guide: Esther 4:5; Esther 4:6; Esther 4:9
Cross references (11)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Daniel 9:3; Ezekiel 27:30–31; 2 Samuel 13:19; 2 Samuel 1:11; Job 42:6
- 3 Isaiah 22:12; Daniel 9:3; Isaiah 37:1–3; Esther 3:12; Esther 4:16
- 4 Psalm 77:2; Genesis 37:35; Jeremiah 31:15; Isaiah 56:3; 1 Samuel 8:15
- 5 1 Corinthians 12:26; Romans 12:15; Esther 1:10; Hebrews 4:15; Philippians 2:4
- 6 Esther 4:3; Esther 7:2
- 7 Esther 3:2–15
- 8 Ecclesiastes 10:4; Job 9:15; 1 Timothy 6:13; Esther 3:14–15; Esther 2:20
- 11 Esther 5:1–2; Esther 8:4; Daniel 2:9; Esther 2:14; Esther 6:4
- 13 Proverbs 24:10–12; John 12:25; Philippians 2:30; Hebrews 12:3
- 14 Genesis 45:4–8; 1 Samuel 12:22; Deuteronomy 32:36; Isaiah 54:17; Jeremiah 30:11
- 16 Acts 20:24; 2 Chronicles 20:3; Joel 2:12–17; Luke 9:24; Genesis 18:19
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Why does my Bible say something different?
- Esther: the Greek additions
The Hebrew book of Esther never names God. The Greek Septuagint version contains six longer passages, usually lettered A to F, that include Mordecai’s dream, two royal decrees and the prayers of Mordecai and Esther. The Orthodox and Catholic Churches read them as Scripture; most Protestant Bibles leave them out or print them among the Apocrypha.