Moluddekaayi Akkirizisa Eseza Okuyamba Abayudaaya
14:1 a Kbl 14:6 b 2Sa 13:19; Ez 27:30-31; Yon 3:5-6 c Kuv 11:6; Zab 30:11Awo Moluddekaayi bwe yategeera byonna ebyakolebwa, n’ayuza ebyambalo bye n’ayambala ebibukutu ne yeesiiga evvu, n’afuluma n’agenda mu kibuga wakati, n’akaaba n’eddoboozi ddene olw’ennaku ennyingi: 24:2 Es 2:19naye n’akoma ku wankaaki wa kabaka, kubanga tewali eyakirizibwanga okuyingira mu mulyango gwa Kabaka ng’ayambadde ebibukutu. 3Mu buli kitundu ekiragiro kya Kabaka n’etteeka lye gye byatuukanga ne waba okukuba ebiwoobe bingi n’okusiiba n’okukaaba amaziga mangi mu Bayudaaya era bangi ku bo ne bambala ebibukutu.4:3 Ebibukutu oba ebikutiya
4Awo abaweereza ba Eseza abakazi n’abalaawe be ne bajja gyali okumutegeeza ku bibadde wo, era Nnabagereka n’anakuwala nnyo: n’aweereza Moluddekaayi ebyambalo yeyambulemu ebibukutu bye yali ayambadde naye Moluddekaayi n’atabikkiriza. 5Eseza n’atumya Kasaki omu ku balaawe ba Kabaka, gwe yali ataddewo okumuweereza n’amukuutira okugenda okumanya ekizibu ekyali kituuse ku Moluddekaayi era n’ensonga.
6Awo Kasaki n’afuluma n’agenda ebweru mu kifo ekigazi eky’ekibuga ekyayolekera omulyango gwa Kabaka, Moluddekaayi gye yali. 74:7 Es 3:9; 7:4Moluddekaayi n’amutegeeza byonna ebyamutuukako, n’omuwendo gw’ensimbi Kamani gwe yali asuubizza okuteeka mu ggwanika lya Kabaka olw’okuzikiriza Abayudaaya. 8Era n’amuwa n’ebyaggyibwa mu kiwandiiko eky’etteeka eryalaalikibwa mu Susani, okuliraga Eseza n’okulimunnyonnyola ate era n’okukuutira Eseza okugenda amwegayiririre ye n’abantu be eri Kabaka. 9Amangwago Kasaki n’agenda n’abuulira Eseza ebigambo Moluddekaayi bye yali amutegeezezza. 10Awo Eseza n’alagira Kasaki okuzzaayo obubaka ewa Moluddekaayi nti, 114:11 a Es 2:14 b Dan 2:9 c Es 5:1, 2; 8:4“Abakungu ba kabaka bonna n’abantu bonna ab’omu bitundu byonna eby’obwakabaka bakimanyi nti tewali musajja oba mukyala eyeeyanjula mu maaso ga Kabaka mu luggya olw’omunda ng’atayitiddwa kabaka. Era waliwo n’etteeka nti akolanga bw’atyo attibwenga, wabula nga Kabaka amugololedde omuggo gwe ogwa zaabu, n’aba omulamu. Naye wayiseewo ennaku amakumi asatu kasookedde mpitibwa kugenda wa kabaka.”
12Ebigambo ebyo bwe byatuuka ku Moluddekaayi, 13Moluddekaayi n’amuddamu nti, “Tolowooza nti olw’okuba oli mu lubiri lwa Kabaka, gwe onowonawo wekka mu Bayudaaya bonna. 144:14 a Mub 3:7; Is 62:1; Am 5:13 b Es 9:16, 22 c Lub 45:7; Ma 28:29 d Lub 50:20Kubanga ggwe bw’onoosirika mu kiseera kino, okubeerwa n’okulokolebwa kw’Abayudaaya kuliva awalala, naye ggwe n’ennyumba ya Kitaawo mulizikizibwa. Ate ani amanyi obanga wafuulibwa Nnabagereka lwa kiseera kino?”
15Awo Eseza n’aweereza obubaka eri Moluddekaayi nti, 164:16 a 2By 20:3; Es 9:31 b Lub 43:14“Genda okuŋŋaanye Abayudaaya bonna abali mu Susani, musiibe ku lwange, so temulya wadde okunywa ekintu emisana n’ekiro okumala ennaku ssatu. Nze n’abaweereza bange abakyala tunaasiibira wamu nammwe. Ekyo nga kiwedde, ndigenda eri Kabaka, newaakubadde nga tekikkirizibwa mu mateeka. Bwe ndiba ow’okuzikirira, nzikirira.”
17Amangwago Moluddekaayi n’agenda, era n’akola byonna Eseza bye yamulagira.
Mordecai persuades Esther to help
1When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly. 2But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because no-one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. 3In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4When Esther’s eunuchs and female attendants came and told her about Mordecai, she was in great distress. She sent clothes for him to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. 5Then Esther summoned Hathak, one of the king’s eunuchs assigned to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.
6So Hathak went out to Mordecai in the open square of the city in front of the king’s gate. 7Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews. 8He also gave him a copy of the text of the edict for their annihilation, which had been published in Susa, to show to Esther and explain it to her, and he told him to instruct her to go into the king’s presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.
9Hathak went back and reported to Esther what Mordecai had said. 10Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, 11‘All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold sceptre to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.’
12When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, 13he sent back this answer: ‘Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. 14For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?’
15Then Esther sent this reply to Mordecai: 16‘Go, gather together all the Jews who are in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my attendants will fast as you do. When this is done, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish.’
17So Mordecai went away and carried out all of Esther’s instructions.
