Esther 4:1-4
New American Standard Bible 1995
Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot
4 When Mordecai learned (A)all that had been done, [a]he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly. 2 He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. 3 In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with (B)fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.
4 Then Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her, and the queen writhed in great anguish. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai that he might remove his sackcloth from him, but he did not accept them.
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- Esther 4:1 Lit Mordecai
Jeremiah 6:26
New American Standard Bible 1995
26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth
And (B)roll in ashes;
[a](C)Mourn as for an only son,
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.
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- Jeremiah 6:26 Lit Make for yourself mourning
Ezekiel 27:30-31
New American Standard Bible 1995
30 And they will (A)make their voice heard over you
And will cry bitterly.
They will (B)cast dust on their heads,
They will (C)wallow in ashes.
31 “Also they will make themselves (D)bald for you
And (E)gird themselves with sackcloth;
And they will (F)weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.
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