Esther 4:1

A Conservative Version

Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore 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.

Cross References

Daniel 9:3

And I set my face to LORD God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor [myself], and repent in dust and ashes.

2 Samuel 13:19

And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her. And she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them, and likewise all the men who were with him.

Job 2:8

And he took a potsherd for him to scrape himself with it, and he sat among the ashes.

Acts 14:14

But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard, having torn their garments, they rushed into the crowd, crying out

Matthew 11:21

Woe to thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that occurred in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of LORD is near. It is near and hastens greatly, the voice of the day of LORD. The mighty man cries there bitterly.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.

Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, thou son of man. With the breaking of thy loins and with bitterness thou shall sigh before their eyes.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD?

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 15:4

And Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh. Their voice is heard even to Jahaz. Therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud. His soul trembles within him.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.

Esther 4:3

And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their heads.

Genesis 27:34

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceedingly great and bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days clothed in sackcloth.

Esther 4:2

And he came even before the king's gate, for none might enter inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

Isaiah 37:1

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of LORD.

Isaiah 37:2

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Ezekiel 21:11

And it is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword, it is sharpened, yea, it is polished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.