Esther 4:1-8 ▼

1 And Mordecai knew all that had been done, and Mordecai tore his clothes, and he put on sackcloth and ashes, and he went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a cry great and bitter.

2 And he came as far as before the face of the gate of the king, for no one was to come into the gate of the king in a garment of sackcloth.

3 And in every province and province, any place to which the word of the king and his law reached, there was great mourning for the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing—sackcloth and ashes were spread out for many.

4 And the yougn women of Esther and her eunuchs came in, and they told it to her, and the queen writhed exceedingly. And she sent garments to clothe Mordecai and to remove his sackcloth from him, and he would not receive them.

5 And Esther called to Hathach from the eunuchs of the king, whom he had caused to stand before her face, and she commanded him concerning Mordecai, to know what this was, and on account of what this was.

6 And Hathach went out to Mordecai to the open square of the city, which was before the face of the gate of the king.

7 And Mordecai told to him all that had happened to him, and the exact amount of the silver that Haman had said to weigh out upon the treasuries of the king for the Jews, to destroy them.

8 And a copy of the writing of the law that was given in Susa to destroy them he gave to him to show Esther, and to tell it to her, and to lay the charge upon her to come in to the king, to implore favor from him, and to seek from before his face concerning her people.