Esther · Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Esther 4 Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (3)
- eBible.org's Latin-script edition, ekavian pronunciation (e.g. svet, greh).
- No deuterocanonical books.
- Chapter divisions follow the Hebrew Bible in Job 39–41, Ezekiel 20–21, Hosea 11–12 and Jonah 1–2 (verse numbers there differ from English Bibles).
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 A Mardohej doznav sve šta bi, razdre haljine svoje i obuče se u kostret i posu se pepelom i pođe po gradu vičući iza glasa gorko.
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 I dođe do pred vrata careva, jer ne beše slobodno ući na vrata careva u kostreti.
2 He came even before the king’s gate, for no one is allowed inside the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3 I u svim zemljama, u koje god mesto dođe reč careva i zapovest njegova, bi velika žalost među Jevrejima i post i plač i jauk, i mnogi u kostreti i pepelu ležahu.
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 I dođoše devojke Jestirine i dvorani njeni, i javiše joj: i carica se ožalosti veoma, i posla haljine da preobuku Mardoheja i da skinu s njega kostret; ali on ne primi.
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 Tada dozva Jestira Ataha, dvoranina carevog, kog joj beše dao da joj služi, i zapovedi mu za Mardoheja da razbere šta mu je i zašto.
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 I otide Atah k Mardoheju na ulicu gradsku koja beše pred vratima carevim.
6 So Hathach went out to Mordecai, to the city square which was before the king’s gate.
7 I Mardohej mu kaza sve što mu se dogodilo i za srebro što je obrekao Aman dati u carevu riznicu za Judejce da ih istrebi;
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 i prepis od zapovesti koja bi proglašena u Susanu da se istrebe, dade mu da je pokaže Jestiri i javi, i da joj naruči da otide k caru i da ga umilostivi i da ga moli za svoj narod.
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 I vrativši se Atah kaza Jestiri reči Mardohejeve.
9 Hathach came and told Esther the words of Mordecai.
10 A Jestira reče Atahu i zapovedi mu da kaže Mardoheju:
10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach, and gave him a message to Mordecai:
11 Znaju sve sluge careve i narod po zemljama carevim da ko bi god, čovek ili žena, ušao k caru unutra u dvor ne budući pozvan, jedan je zakon za nj, da se pogubi, osim kome bi car pružio zlatnu palicu, taj ostaje živ; a ja nisam zvana da uđem k caru, ovo je trideset dana.
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 I kazane biše Mardoheju reči Jestirine.
12 They told Esther’s words to Mordecai.
13 A Mardohej opet poruči Jestiri: Nemoj misliti da ćeš se mimo sve Judejce izbaviti u domu carevom.
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◆ Jer ako ti zaćutiš sada, doći će pomoć i izbavljenje Judejcima s druge strane, a ti i dom oca tvog poginućete; i ko zna nisi li za ovako vreme došla do carstva.
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 Tada reče Jestira da odgovore Mardoheju:
15 Then Esther asked them to answer Mordecai,
16 Idi, skupi sve Judejce što se nalaze u Susanu, i postite za me, i ne jedite ni pijte za tri dana ni danju ni noću; i ja ću sa svojim devojkama postiti takođe, pa ću onda otići k caru, ako i nije po zakonu, i ako poginem, neka poginem.
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 Tada otide Mardohej i učini sve kako mu zapovedi Jestira.
17 So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.
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People
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
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
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.