Esther 4:1

Tree of Life Version

When Mordecai learned all that was done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city crying out in a loud and bitter voice.

Cross References

Genesis 27:34

When Esau heard his father’s words, he shouted with an intensely bitter groan. Then he said to his father, “Bless me, me too, my father!”

Genesis 37:34

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

2 Samuel 1:11

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

2 Samuel 13:19

Tamar put ashes on her head and rent her long-sleeved garment that was on her. She laid her hand on her head and was crying aloud as she went away.

Esther 4:2

He went only as far as the king’s gate, because no one could enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.

Esther 4:3

In each and every province where the king’s edict and law came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many put on sackcloth and ashes.

Job 1:20

Then Job got up, tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground and worshiped.

Job 2:8

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

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and repent on dust and ashes.”

Isaiah 15:4

Heshbon and Elealeh cry out. Their voice is heard as far as Jahaz. Therefore the soldiers of Moab cry aloud, his soul faints within him.

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, “Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly— don’t try to comfort me about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”

Isaiah 37:1

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

Isaiah 37:2

Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the scribe and the senior kohanim, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz.

Isaiah 58:5

Is this the fast I have chosen? A day for one to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and spreading out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to Adonai?

Ezekiel 21:11

As for you, son of man, groan, with breaking of your sides and with bitterness you will groan before their eyes.

Ezekiel 21:6

Then the word of Adonai came to me saying:

Daniel 9:3

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

Micah 1:8

Concerning this let me lament and howl. Let me walk barefoot and naked. I will make a howl like jackals and a mourning like ostriches.

Zephaniah 1:14

The great day of Adonai is near— near and coming very quickly! The sound of the day of Adonai is bitter— the shouting of the warrior is there.

Matthew 11:21

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

Acts 14:14

But when the emissaries Barnabas and Paul heard of it, they tore their clothes and rushed out among the crowd, crying out

Joshua 7:6

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

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant authority to My two witnesses and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”