Esther 4:1
When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
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;
Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.
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;
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- all that
- Esther 3:8–13
- rent
- 2 Samuel 1:11; Job 1:20; Jonah 3:4–9; Acts 14:14
- with ashes
- Esther 4:3; Joshua 7:6; 2 Samuel 13:19; Job 2:8; Job 42:6; Isaiah 58:5; Ezekiel 27:30; Daniel 9:3; Jonah 3:6; Matthew 11:21
- and cried
- Mordecai gave every demonstration of the most poignant grief. Nor did he hide this from the city; and the Greek says that he uttered these words aloud: [Airetai ethnos meden edikekos,] "A people is going to be destroyed who have done no evil."
- Genesis 27:34; Isaiah 15:4; Isaiah 22:4; Ezekiel 21:6; Ezekiel 27:31; Micah 1:8; Zephaniah 1:14; Revelation 18:17–19