Esther 4:1
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Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
4 When Mordecai learned all that had happened, [a]he (A)tore his clothes and put on sackcloth (B)and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city. He (C)cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
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- Esther 4:1 Lit. Mordecai
Daniel 9:3
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3 (A)Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
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Ezekiel 27:30-31
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30 They will make their voice heard because of you;
They will cry bitterly and (A)cast dust on their heads;
They (B)will roll about in ashes;
31 They will (C)shave themselves completely bald because of you,
Gird themselves with sackcloth,
And weep for you
With bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Job 42:6
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- Job 42:6 despise
2 Samuel 13:19
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19 Then Tamar put (A)ashes on her head, and tore her robe of many colors that was on her, and (B)laid her hand on her head and went away crying bitterly.
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2 Samuel 1:11
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11 Therefore David took hold of his own clothes and (A)tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.
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Revelation 18:17-19
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17 (A)For in one hour such great riches [a]came to nothing.’ (B)Every shipmaster, all who travel by ship, sailors, and as many as trade on the sea, stood at a distance 18 (C)and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning, saying, (D)‘What is like this great city?’
19 (E)“They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying, ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! (F)For in one hour she [b]is made desolate.’
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- Revelation 18:17 have been laid waste
- Revelation 18:19 have been laid waste
Job 2:8
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8 And he took for himself a potsherd with which to scrape himself (A)while he sat in the midst of the ashes.
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Acts 14:14
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14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, (A)they tore their clothes and ran in among the multitude, crying out
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Matthew 11:21
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21 “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago (A)in sackcloth and ashes.
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Zephaniah 1:14
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14 (A)The great day of the Lord is near;
It is near and hastens quickly.
The noise of the day of the Lord is bitter;
There the mighty men shall cry out.
Micah 1:8
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Mourning for Israel and Judah
8 Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(A)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,
Jonah 3:4-9
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4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then (A)he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
The People of Nineveh Believe
5 So the (B)people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth (C)and sat in ashes. 7 (D)And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his [a]nobles, saying,
Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, (E)let every one turn from his evil way and from (F)the violence that is in his hands. 9 (G)Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
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- Jonah 3:7 Lit. great ones
Ezekiel 21:6
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6 (A)Sigh therefore, son of man, with [a]a breaking heart, and sigh with bitterness before their eyes.
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- Ezekiel 21:6 Emotional distress, lit. the breaking of your loins
Isaiah 58:5
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5 Is (A)it a fast that I have chosen,
(B)A day for a man to afflict his soul?
Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush,
And (C)to spread out sackcloth and ashes?
Would you call this a fast,
And an acceptable day to the Lord?
Isaiah 22:4
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4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
(A)I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”
Isaiah 15:4
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4 Heshbon and Elealeh will cry out,
Their voice shall be heard as far as (A)Jahaz;
Therefore the [a]armed soldiers of Moab will cry out;
His life will be burdensome to him.
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- Isaiah 15:4 So with MT, Tg., Vg.; LXX, Syr. loins
Job 1:20
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20 Then Job arose, (A)tore his robe, and shaved his head; and he (B)fell to the ground and worshiped.
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Esther 4:3
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3 And in every province where the king’s command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Joshua 7:6
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6 Then Joshua (A)tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they (B)put dust on their heads.
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Genesis 27:34
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34 When Esau heard the words of his father, (A)he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me—me also, O my father!”
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Esther 3:8-13
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8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom; (A)their laws are different from all other people’s, and they do not keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not fitting for the king to let them remain. 9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”
10 So the king (B)took (C)his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the (D)enemy of the Jews. 11 And the king said to Haman, “The money and the people are given to you, to do with them as seems good to you.”
12 (E)Then the king’s scribes were called on the thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree was written according to all that Haman commanded—to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province, to the officials of all people, to every province (F)according to its script, and to every people in their language. (G)In the name of King Ahasuerus it was written, and sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13 And the letters were (H)sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, little children and women, (I)in one day, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and (J)to plunder their [a]possessions.
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- Esther 3:13 LXX adds the text of the letter here
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