Book not found for reference: Esther 4:1-3📜 ESTHER 4:1-3
"Esther 4:1: When 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;
Esther 4:2: And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:3: And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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