Esther 4:3
King James Version
“And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.”
Context
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;
2And came even before the king’s gate: for none enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.
3And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
4So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received not.
5Then called Esther for Hatach, of the king’s chamberlains, whom he had appointed to attend upon her, and gave him a commandment to Mordecai, to know what it and why it
6So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which before the king’s gate.