Esther 4:1-3 New International Version

Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help

4 When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes,^(A) put on sackcloth and ashes,^(B) and went out into the city, wailing^(C) loudly and bitterly. ²But he went only as far as the king’s gate,^(D) because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it. ³In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Job 2:8 New International Version

⁸Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.^(A)

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Job 2:8 : Ge 18:27; Est 4:3; Job 16:15; 19:9; 30:19; 42:6; Ps 7:5; Isa 58:5; 61:3; Jer 6:26; La 3:29; Eze 26:16; Jnh 3:5-8, 6; Mt 11:21

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Job 2:13 New International Version

¹³Then they sat on the ground^(A) with him for seven days and seven nights.^(B) No one said a word to him,^(C) because they saw how great his suffering was.

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Ezekiel 27:30-31 New International Version

³⁰They will raise their voice
    and cry bitterly over you;
they will sprinkle dust^(A) on their heads
    and roll^(B) in ashes.^(C)
³¹They will shave their heads^(D) because of you
    and will put on sackcloth.
They will weep^(E) over you with anguish of soul
    and with bitter mourning.^(F)