Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

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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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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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.

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therefore I despise myself,
    and repent[a] in (A)dust and ashes.”

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Footnotes

  1. Job 42:6 Or and am comforted

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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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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17 For (A)in a single hour all this wealth (B)has been laid waste.”

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.

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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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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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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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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.

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(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.

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Jonah began to go into the city, going a day's journey. And he called out, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!” (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

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. 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, 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. (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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Footnotes

  1. Jonah 3:6 Or had reached

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