Esther 4:1

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Now when Mordekhai found out all that was done, Mordekhai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and wailed loudly and a bitterly.

Cross References

Genesis 27:34

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

Genesis 37:34

Ya`akov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

2 Samuel 1:11

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

2 Samuel 13:19

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.

Esther 4:2

He came even before the king's gate, for no one is allowed inside the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:3

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

Job 1:20

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

Job 2:8

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

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.*

Isaiah 15:4

Cheshbon cries out with El`aleh. Their voice is heard even to Yahatz. Therefore the armed men of Mo'av cry aloud. Their souls tremble within them.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, *Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 37:1

It happened, when king Chizkiyahu heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's house.

Isaiah 37:2

He sent Elyakim, who was over the household, and Shevna the scribe, and the elders of the Kohanim, covered with sackcloth, to Yeshaiyahu the prophet, the son of Amotz.

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 you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?

Ezekiel 21:11

It is given to be furbished, that it may be handled: the sword, it is sharpened, yes, it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the killer.

Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, you son of man; with the breaking of your thighs and with bitterness shall you sigh before their eyes.

Daniel 9:3

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

Zephaniah 1:14

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

Matthew 11:21

*Woe to you, Kora'zin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the mighty works had been done in Tzor and Tzidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Acts 14:14

But when the emissaries, Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

Joshua 7:6

Yehoshua tore his clothes, and fell to the dirt on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Yisra'el; and they put dust on their heads.

Revelation 11:3

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.*