Est 4:1-4, Job 2:8, 42:6, Jer 6:26, 25:34, Jon 3:6, Mic 1:10 | ESV | STEP | 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 4:1-4

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

1 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes ^aand put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2 He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. 3 And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, ^bwith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them ^clay in sackcloth and ashes.

4 When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.

Job 2:8

8 And he took ^da piece of broken pottery with which to scrape himself while he sat in ^ethe ashes.

Job 42:6

6 therefore I despise myself,
and repent ^{▼▼Or and am comforted} in ^gdust and ashes.”

Jeremiah 6:26

26 O daughter of my people, ^hput on sackcloth,
and ⁱroll in ashes;
^jmake mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.

Jeremiah 25:34

34 ^k“Wail, ^lyou shepherds, and cry out,
^mand roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

Jonah 3:6

The People of Nineveh Repent

6 The word reached ^{▼▼Or had reached} the king of Nineveh, and ^ohe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, ^pand sat in ashes.

Micah 1:10

10 ^qTell it not in ^rGath;
weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
^sroll yourselves in the dust.