Esther 4 Interlinear

and came even before the kings gate for none might enter into the kings gate clothed with sackcloth

and in every province whithersoever the kings 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

so esthers 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

then called esther for hatach one of the kings chamberlains whom he had appointed to attend upon her and gave him a commandment to mordecai to know

so hatach went forth to mordecai unto the street of the city which was before the kings gate

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 kings treasuries for the jews to destroy

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

and hatach came and told esther the words of mordecai

again esther spake unto hatach and gave him commandment unto mordecai

all the kings servants and the people of the kings 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

and they told to mordecai esthers words

then mordecai commanded to answer esther think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the kings house more than all the jews

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 fathers house shall be destroyed and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time

then esther bade them return mordecai

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

so mordecai went his way and did according to all that esther had commanded