Yǐsītièjì 4:14

14 Cǐ shí nǐ ruò bì kǒu bù yán , Yóudà rén bì cóng bié chù dé jiĕ tuō , méng zhĕngjiù , nǐ hé nǐ fù jiā , bì zhì mièwáng . yān zhī nǐ dé le wáng hòu de wèi fēn , bú shì wèi xiànjīn de jīhuì ma .

Yǐsītièjì 4:14 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:14

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time
And will not speak to the king in favour of the Jews, because of the danger she would be exposed to in doing it:

then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from
another place;
Mordecai seemed confident of it, that by some means or another the Jews would be delivered; if not through the intercession of Esther, yet from some other quarter, or by some other hand:

but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed;
for such neglect of the people of God when in distress, want of pity to them, and not exerting herself as she might in their behalf; so that seeing she and her family must perish, it was better to perish in a good cause than in a bad one:

and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as
this?
he intimates that he believed that the providence of God had raised her to that dignity, that she might be an instrument of saving his people in the time of their distress; and this he said to encourage her to make the experiment.

Yǐsītièjì 4:14 In-Context

12 Rén jiù bǎ Yǐsītiĕ zhè huà gàosu Mòdǐgǎi .

13 Mòdǐgǎi tuō rén huí fù Yǐsītiĕ shuō , nǐ mòxiǎng zaì wánggōng lǐ jiàng guō yīqiè Yóudà rén , dé miǎn zhè huò .

14 Cǐ shí nǐ ruò bì kǒu bù yán , Yóudà rén bì cóng bié chù dé jiĕ tuō , méng zhĕngjiù , nǐ hé nǐ fù jiā , bì zhì mièwáng . yān zhī nǐ dé le wáng hòu de wèi fēn , bú shì wèi xiànjīn de jīhuì ma .

15 Yǐsītiĕ jiù fēnfu rén huí bào Mòdǐgǎi shuō ,

16 Nǐ dāng qù zhāo jù Shūshān chéng suǒyǒude Yóudà rén , wèi wǒ jìnshí sān zhòu sān yè , bù chī bù hē . wǒ hé wǒde gōng nǚ yĕ yào zhèyàng jìnshí . ránhòu wǒ wéi lì jìn qù jiàn wáng , wǒ ruò sǐ jiù sǐ ba .