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1 Cuando Mardoqueo supo lo que se había hecho, rasgó su ropa, se vistió de luto, se echó ceniza en la cabeza y salió por la ciudad dando gritos de dolor.
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 Se detuvo ante la puerta del palacio, porque a nadie se le permitía entrar vestido de esa manera.
2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 De igual manera, cuando la noticia de la orden real llegaba a las distintas provincias donde vivían judíos, estos sentían mucho dolor, ayunaban, lloraban y se lamentaban amargamente. Muchos se vestían de luto y dormían sobre ceniza.
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 Cuando las sirvientas y los guardias de Ester fueron y le contaron lo que ocurría con Mardoqueo, ella se sintió profundamente perturbada y le mandó ropa para que se quitara el luto, pero él se negó.
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 mandó a buscar a Hatac, uno de los hombres de confianza del rey que había sido puesto a su servicio, y le dijo que fuera a preguntarle a Mardoqueo cuál era el problema y por qué estaba actuando de esa manera.
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 la plaza de la ciudad y encontró a Mardoqueo en las afueras del palacio.
6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square which was before the king’s gate.
7 Mardoqueo lo puso al tanto de todo y de los trescientos treinta mil kilos de plata que Amán había prometido entregar a la tesorería del rey a cambio del exterminio de 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 Además, Mardoqueo le dio a Hatac una copia del decreto del rey en el que se condenaba a todos los judíos, y le pidió que se lo mostrara a Ester y le contara lo que estaba ocurriendo. También le pidió que le dijera a Ester que fuera a ver al rey y le suplicara que no le hiciera tal mal a 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 enseguida ante Ester con el mensaje de Mardoqueo.
9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 Ester le dijo a Hatac que regresara a Mardoqueo y le dijera:
10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
11 «Todo el mundo sabe que cualquiera, sea hombre o mujer, que entre a la presencia del rey sin ser llamado por él está condenado a morir, a menos que el rey le tienda su cetro de oro. ¡Hace más de un mes que el rey no me llama a su presencia!».
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 Hatac fue y le dio el mensaje de Ester a Mardoqueo.
12 They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
13 Entonces Mardoqueo le mandó a decir: «¿Piensas que porque estás en el palacio escaparás cuando los otros judíos sean muertos?
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 callas en un tiempo como este, Dios salvará a los judíos de alguna otra manera, pero tú y tu familia morirán. ¿Y quién sabe si no es para ayudar a tu pueblo en un momento como este que has llegado a ser reina?».
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 Entonces Ester envió a decir a Mardoqueo:
15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
16 «Ve y reúne a todos los judíos de Susa y pídeles que ayunen por mí. Diles que no coman ni beban durante tres días con sus noches. Yo y mis sirvientas haremos lo mismo. Luego, aunque está estrictamente prohibido, me presentaré ante al rey. ¡Si he de morir, que muera!».
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 hizo lo que Ester le ordenó.
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.