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,...