Esther 4:1

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Summary

When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

All that

Esther 3:8

With ashes

And cried

Revelation 18:17

General references

Genesis 37:34

Bible References

All that

Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of any other nation. They do not keep the king's laws. For this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.

With ashes

Throughout all the provinces, wherever the king's proclamation was made known, there was loud mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, wailed, and most of them put on sackcloth and lay in ashes.

And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

Tamar tore the robe she was wearing. She put ashes on her head. Then she covered her face with her hands. She cried loudly as she walked away.

Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch his sores as he sat in the ashes.

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.

Is it a fast like this which I choose, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it for bowing one's head like a reed (rush) and for spreading out sackcloth and ashes as a bed? Will you call this a fast, even an acceptable day to Jehovah?

And they will make their voice heard over you and will cry bitterly. They will cast dust on their heads and wallow in ashes.

I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

The news reached the king of Nineveh. He left his throne, and took off his robe and covered himself with sackcloth. Then he sat in ashes.

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon that were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

And cried

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out. Their voice is heard all the way to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud and tremble with fear.

I said: Turn away from me. Let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.

So, son of man, groan with a breaking heart and with bitter crying while the people watch you.

They will make themselves bald for you and gird themselves with sackcloth. They will weep for you in bitterness and with painful mourning.

I [Micah] will lament and wail. I will go barefoot and naked. I will make a howling like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

The great Day of Jehovah is near. It is near and coming quickly. Listen! The mighty man will cry out bitterly on the Day of Jehovah.

In one hour these great riches came to nothing.' Every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood far off,

General references

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.