Esther 4:3-5

Lexham English Bible

³ In every province each place where the king’s edict and his law came, there was great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, and sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them.

⁴ And Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and they told her, and the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai so that he might remove his sackcloth—but he did not accept them. ⁵ Then Esther called Hathach from the king’s eunuchs who regularly attended to her,^[a] and she ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what was happening and why.