Esther 4:1

Modern English Version

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore 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.

Cross References

Genesis 27:34

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

Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his waist and mourned for his son many days.

2 Samuel 1:11

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

2 Samuel 13:19

So Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and left, wailing as she went.

Esther 4:2

He went as far as the king’s gate because no one was allowed to enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:3

In each and every province where the king’s command and his decree came there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Job 1:20

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped.

Job 2:8

So he took a piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Job 42:6

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

Isaiah 15:4

Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh; their voice shall be heard even to Jahaz; therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous to him.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore, I say, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; do not try to comfort me because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Isaiah 37:1

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

Isaiah 37:2

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.

Isaiah 58:5

Is it such a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to humble himself? Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes under him? Will you call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord?

Ezekiel 21:11

He has given it to be polished, that it may be handled; the sword is sharpened, and it is polished to give it into the hand of the slayer.

Ezekiel 21:6

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

Daniel 9:3

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

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail, I will go about barefoot and naked; I will howl like the jackals and moan like owlets.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening quickly. The sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the mighty man shall cry out there.

Matthew 11:21

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

Acts 14:14

But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard this, they tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, crying out,

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua ripped his clothes. He and the Israelite elders fell on their faces to the ground in front of the ark of the Lord until evening and threw dirt upon their heads.

Revelation 11:3

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