Esther 4:1
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Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
4 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes (A)and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
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Daniel 9:3
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3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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Ezekiel 27:30-31
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30 (A)and shout aloud over you
and cry out bitterly.
(B)They cast dust on their heads
(C)and wallow in ashes;
31 they (D)make themselves bald for you
and put sackcloth on their waist,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.
Job 42:6
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- Job 42:6 Or and am comforted
2 Samuel 13:19
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19 And Tamar (A)put ashes on her head and (B)tore the long robe that she wore. And (C)she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.
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2 Samuel 1:11
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11 Then David took hold of his 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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And (C)all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off 18 and (D)cried out (E)as they saw the smoke of her burning,
(F)“What city was like the great city?”
19 And they threw (G)dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out,
“Alas, alas, for the great city
(H)where all who had ships at sea
grew rich by her wealth!
For (I)in a single hour she has been laid waste.
Job 2:8
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8 And he took (A)a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in (B)the ashes.
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Acts 14:14
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14 But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they (A)tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,
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Matthew 11:21
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21 (A)“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in (B)Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago 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,
near and hastening fast;
the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter;
(B)the mighty man cries aloud there.
Micah 1:8
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8 (A)For this I will lament and wail;
I will go (B)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (C)like the jackals,
and mourning (D)like the ostriches.
Jonah 3:4-9
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4 Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” 5 (A)And the people of Nineveh believed God. (B)They called for a fast and (C)put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
The People of Nineveh Repent
6 The word reached[a] the king of Nineveh, and (D)he arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, (E)and sat in ashes. 7 And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, (F)“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor (G)beast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8 but let man and (H)beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. (I)Let everyone turn from his evil way and from (J)the violence that is in his hands. 9 (K)Who knows? God may turn and relent (L)and turn from his fierce anger, so that we may not perish.”
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- Jonah 3:6 Or had reached
Ezekiel 21:6
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6 “As for you, son of man, (A)groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, (B)groan before their eyes.
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Isaiah 58:5
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5 (A)Is such the fast that I choose,
(B)a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it to bow down his head like a reed,
and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?
Will you call this a fast,
and a day acceptable to the Lord?
Isaiah 22:4
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4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
(A)let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
Isaiah 15:4
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4 (A)Heshbon and (B)Elealeh cry out;
their voice is heard as far as (C)Jahaz;
therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud;
his soul trembles.
Job 1:20
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20 Then Job arose and (A)tore his (B)robe and (C)shaved his head (D)and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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Esther 4:3
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3 And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, (A)with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them (B)lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Joshua 7:6
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6 Then Joshua (A)tore his clothes and (B)fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put (C)dust on their heads.
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Genesis 27:34
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34 As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, (A)he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even 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 abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. (A)Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them. 9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents[a] of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.” 10 (B)So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman (C)the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, (D)the enemy of the Jews. 11 And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
12 (E)Then the king's scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king's (F)satraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, (G)to every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written (H)in the name of King Ahasuerus (I)and sealed with the king's signet ring. 13 Letters were sent (J)by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction (K)to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, (L)in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, (M)and to plunder their goods.
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- Esther 3:9 A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms
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