Est 4:3 | ESV | STEP | And in every province , wherever the king’s command and his decree reached , there was great mourning among the Jews , with fasting and weeping and lamenting , and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes .

Esther 4:3

3 And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, ^awith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them ^blay in sackcloth and ashes.