Esther 4:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW WHEN Mordecai learned all that was done, [he] rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and bitter cry.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now when Mordecai knew 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;

Common English Bible

¹ When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes, dressed in mourning clothes, and put ashes on his head. Then he went out into the heart of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And so, after this had been carried out, and the indignation of king Artaxerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what had happened to her.

English Standard Version 2016

¹ When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes 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.

Esther 4:1 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 27:34

When Esau heard his father’s words, he cried out with an exceedingly great and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, me also, father!”

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold of his clothes and tore them, and all the men who were with him did the same.

2 Samuel 13:19

But Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she was wearing; she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

Esther 4:2

he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:3

In every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Job 2:8

Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

Job 42:6

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Isaiah 15:4

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voices are heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the loins of Moab quiver; his soul trembles.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.”

Isaiah 37:1

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 37:2

And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

Ezekiel 21:11

The sword is given to be polished to be grasped in the hand; it is sharpened; the sword is polished to be placed in the slayer’s hand.

Ezekiel 21:6

Moan, therefore, mortal; moan with body collapsed and bitter grief before their eyes.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals and mourning like the ostriches.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the warrior cries aloud there.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Acts 14:14

When the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting,

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”