Esther 4:1-4

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

1When 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. 2He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. 3And 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.

4When 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

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

Job 42:6

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

Jeremiah 6:26

26O 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.

Lamentations 3:29

29 klet him put his mouth in the dust
there may yet be hope;

Daniel 9:3

3Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by lprayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:10

10 mTell it not in nGath;
weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
oroll yourselves in the dust.
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