4:1 When
Mordecai
learned
all
that
had
been
done,
Mordecai
tore
his
clothes
and
put
on
sackcloth
and
ashes,
and
went
out
into
the
midst
of
the
city,
and
he
cried
out
with
a
loud
and
bitter
cry.
4:2 He
went
up
to
the
entrance
of
the
king's
gate,
for
no
one
was
allowed
to
enter
the
king's
gate
clothed
in
sackcloth.
4:3 And
in
every
province,
wherever
the
king's
command
and
his
decree
reached,
there
was
great
mourning
among
the
Jews,
with
fasting
and
weeping
and
lamenting,
and
many
of
them
lay
in
sackcloth
and
ashes.
4:4 When
Esther's
young
women
and
her
eunuchs
came
and
told
her,
the
queen
was
deeply
distressed.
She
sent
garments
to
clothe
Mordecai,
so
that
he
might
take
off
his
sackcloth,
but
he
would
not
accept
them.
4:5 Then
Esther
called
for
Hathach,
one
of
the
king's
eunuchs,
who
had
been
appointed
to
attend
her,
and
ordered
him
to
go
to
Mordecai
to
learn
what
this
was
and
why
it
was.
4:6 Hathach
went
out
to
Mordecai
in
the
open
square
of
the
city
in
front
of
the
king's
gate,
4:7 and
Mordecai
told
him
all
that
had
happened
to
him,
and
the
exact
sum
of
money
that
Haman
had
promised
to
pay
into
the
king's
treasuries
for
the
destruction
of
the
Jews.
4:8 Mordecai
also
gave
him
a
copy
of
the
written
decree
issued
in
Susa
for
their
destruction,
that
he
might
show
it
to
Esther
and
explain
it
to
her
and
command
her
to
go
to
the
king
to
beg
his
favor
and
plead
with
him
on
behalf
of
her
people.
4:9 And
Hathach
went
and
told
Esther
what
Mordecai
had
said.
4:10 Then
Esther
spoke
to
Hathach
and
commanded
him
to
go
to
Mordecai
and
say,
4:11 "All
the
king's
servants
and
the
people
of
the
king's
provinces
know
that
if
any
man
or
woman
goes
to
the
king
inside
the
inner
court
without
being
called,
there
is
but
one
law--to
be
put
to
death,
except
the
one
to
whom
the
king
holds
out
the
golden
scepter
so
that
he
may
live.
But
as
for
me,
I
have
not
been
called
to
come
in
to
the
king
these
thirty
days."
4:12 And
they
told
Mordecai
what
Esther
had
said.
4:13 Then
Mordecai
told
them
to
reply
to
Esther,
"Do
not
think
to
yourself
that
in
the
king's
palace
you
will
escape
any
more
than
all
the
other
Jews.
4:14 For
if
you
keep
silent
at
this
time,
relief
and
deliverance
will
rise
for
the
Jews
from
another
place,
but
you
and
your
father's
house
will
perish.
And
who
knows
whether
you
have
not
come
to
the
kingdom
for
such
a
time
as
this"
4:15 Then
Esther
told
them
to
reply
to
Mordecai,
4:16 "Go,
gather
all
the
Jews
to
be
found
in
Susa,
and
hold
a
fast
on
my
behalf,
and
do
not
eat
or
drink
for
three
days,
night
or
day.
I
and
my
young
women
will
also
fast
as
you
do.
Then
I
will
go
to
the
king,
though
it
is
against
the
law,
and
if
I
perish,
I
perish."
4:17 Mordecai
then
went
away
and
did
everything
as
Esther
had
ordered
him.
