Esther 4:1

English Standard Version 2016

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.

Cross References

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Job 42:6

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

2 Samuel 13:19

And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she wore. And she laid her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

2 Samuel 1:11

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

Job 2:8

And he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in the ashes.

Acts 14:14

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their garments and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,

Matthew 11:21

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

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 mighty man cries aloud there.

Micah 1:8

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

Ezekiel 21:6

“As for you, son of man, groan; with breaking heart and bitter grief, groan before their eyes.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Isaiah 22:4

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

Isaiah 15:4

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out; their voice is heard as far as Jahaz; therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles.

Job 1:20

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

Esther 4:3

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

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth 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.

Genesis 27:34

As soon as Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out 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 grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”

Esther 4:2

He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

Genesis 37:34

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

Isaiah 37:1

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

Isaiah 37:2

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

Ezekiel 21:11

So the sword is given to be polished, that it may be grasped in the hand. It is sharpened and polished to be given into the hand of the slayer.