Esther 4:1 Cross References

Esther 4:1

1: When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, crying with a loud and bitter wail.

Daniel 9:3

  1. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. I wore rough sackcloth and sprinkled myself with ashes.

2 Samuel 1:11

  1. David and his men tore their clothes in sorrow when they heard the news.

2 Samuel 13:19

  1. But now Tamar tore her robe and put ashes on her head. And then, with her face in her hands, she went away crying.

Ezekiel 27:30

  1. They weep bitterly as they throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
  2. They shave their heads in grief because of you and dress themselves in sackcloth. They weep for you with bitter anguish and deep mourning.

Revelation 18:17

  1. And in one single moment all the wealth of the city is gone!" And all the shipowners and captains of the merchant ships and their crews will stand at a distance.
  2. They will weep as they watch the smoke ascend, and they will say, "Where in all the world is there another city like this?"
  3. And they will throw dust on their heads to show their great sorrow. And they will say, "How terrible, how terrible for the great city! She made us all rich from her great wealth. And now in a single hour it is all gone."

Joshua 7:6

  1. Joshua and the leaders of Israel tore their clothing in dismay, threw dust on their heads, and bowed down facing the Ark of the LORD until evening.

Job 2:8

  1. Then Job scraped his skin with a piece of broken pottery as he sat among the ashes.

Genesis 27:34

  1. When Esau understood, he let out a loud and bitter cry. "O my father, bless me, too!" he begged.

Job 1:20

  1. Job stood up and tore his robe in grief. Then he shaved his head and fell to the ground before God.

Job 42:6

  1. I take back everything I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance."

Ezekiel 21:6

  1. "Son of man, groan before the people! Groan before them with bitter anguish and a broken heart.

Isaiah 58:5

  1. You humble yourselves by going through the motions of penance, bowing your heads like a blade of grass in the wind. You dress in sackcloth and cover yourselves with ashes. Is this what you call fasting? Do you really think this will please the LORD?

Isaiah 22:4

  1. Leave me alone to weep; do not try to comfort me. Let me cry for my people as I watch them being destroyed.

Micah 1:8

  1. Because of all this, I will mourn and lament. I will walk around naked and barefoot in sorrow and shame. I will howl like a jackal and wail like an ostrich.

Matthew 11:21

  1. "What horrors await you, Korazin and Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did in you had been done in wicked Tyre and Sidon, their people would have sat in deep repentance long ago, clothed in sackcloth and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse.

Acts 14:14

  1. But when Barnabas and Paul heard what was happening, they tore their clothing in dismay and ran out among the people, shouting,

Esther 3:8

  1. Then Haman approached King Xerxes and said, "There is a certain race of people scattered through all the provinces of your empire. Their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they refuse to obey even the laws of the king. So it is not in the king's interest to let them live.
  2. If it please Your Majesty, issue a decree that they be destroyed, and I will give 375 tons of silver to the government administrators so they can put it into the royal treasury."
  3. The king agreed, confirming his decision by removing his signet ring from his finger and giving it to Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite--the enemy of the Jews.
  4. "Keep the money," the king told Haman, "but go ahead and do as you like with these people."
  5. On April 17 Haman called in the king's secretaries and dictated letters to the princes, the governors of the respective provinces, and the local officials of each province in their own scripts and languages. These letters were signed in the name of King Xerxes, sealed with his ring,

Esther 4:3

  1. And as news of the king's decree reached all the provinces, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and wailed, and many people lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Zephaniah 1:14

  1. "That terrible day of the LORD is near. Swiftly it comes--a day when strong men will cry bitterly.

Isaiah 15:4

  1. The cries from the cities of Heshbon and Elealeh will be heard far away, even in Jahaz! The bravest warriors of Moab will cry out in utter terror.

Jonah 3:4

  1. On the day Jonah entered the city, he shouted to the crowds: "Forty days from now Nineveh will be destroyed!"
  2. The people of Nineveh believed God's message, and from the greatest to the least, they decided to go without food and wear sackcloth to show their sorrow.
  3. When the king of Nineveh heard what Jonah was saying, he stepped down from his throne and took off his royal robes. He dressed himself in sackcloth and sat on a heap of ashes.
  4. Then the king and his nobles sent this decree throughout the city: "No one, not even the animals, may eat or drink anything at all.
  5. Everyone is required to wear sackcloth and pray earnestly to God. Everyone must turn from their evil ways and stop all their violence.
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