1When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
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And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes: …
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)Here we have an account of the general sorrow that there was among the Jews upon the publishing of Haman’s bloody edict against them. It was a sad time with the church. 1. Mordecai cried bitterly, rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth , Est. 4:1 , 2 . He not only thus vented his grief, but proclaimed it, that all might take notice of it that he was not ashamed to own himself a friend to the Jews,…
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