Esther 5:13

13 Yet all this avails me nothing so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king’s gate.

Esther 5:13 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 5:13

Yet all this availeth me nothing
Is not equal or sufficient for me; it gives me no satisfaction and contentment:

so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate:
not rising up to bow unto him; this single circumstance spoiled all his joy and pleasure.

Esther 5:13 In-Context

11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches and the multitude of his sons and all the things in which the king had promoted him and how he had advanced him above the princes and slaves of the king.

12 Haman said, moreover, Even Esther, the queen, let no one come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself, and tomorrow I am also invited by her with the king.

13 Yet all this avails me nothing so long as I see Mordecai, the Jew, sitting at the king’s gate.

14 Then said Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows {Heb. stake} be made fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged upon it; then go in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman, and he caused the gallows to be made.