Esther 4:1-3

Legacy Standard Bible

Esther Writhes in Anguish

4 Now Mordecai came to know of ^(A)all that had been done. And ^[a]he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly. ² And he went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. ³ Now in each and every province where the word and law of the king reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with ^(B)fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many made their bed in sackcloth and ashes.