Esther 4:1-3

New American Standard Bible 1995

Esther Learns of Haman’s Plot

4 When Mordecai learned ^(A)all that had been done, ^[a]he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly. ² He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. ³ In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with ^(B)fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.