Esther 4:1 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹ When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ NOW WHEN Mordecai learned all that was done, [he] rent 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.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent 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;

Common English Bible

¹ When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes, dressed in mourning clothes, and put ashes on his head. Then he went out into the heart of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ And so, after this had been carried out, and the indignation of king Artaxerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what had happened to her.

English Standard Version 2016

¹ 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.

Esther 4:1 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 27:34

When 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!”

Genesis 37:34

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

2 Samuel 1:11

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

2 Samuel 13:19

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

Esther 4:2

he went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4:3

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

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.

Job 2:8

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

Job 42:6

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

Isaiah 15:4

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

Isaiah 22:4

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

Isaiah 37:1

When King Hezekiah heard it, he rent 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, clothed with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 58:5

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

Ezekiel 21:11

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

Ezekiel 21:6

Sigh therefore, son of man; sigh with breaking heart and bitter grief before their eyes.

Daniel 9:3

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

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.

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.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! 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.

Acts 14:14

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

Joshua 7:6

Then Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

Revelation 11:3

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