And he came even before the King’s [a]gate, but he might not enter within the king’s gate, being clothed with sackcloth.

And in every province and place, whither the king’s charge and his commission came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and mourning, and [b]many lay in sackcloth and in ashes.

¶ Then Esther’s maids and her Eunuchs came and told it her: therefore the queen was very heavy, and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him, but he received it not.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 4:2 Because he would advertise Esther of this cruel proclamation.
  2. Esther 4:3 Hebrew, sackcloth and ashes were spread for many.

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