Devine Scripture

Esther 4:3

Esther chapter 4 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.2and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

v.3This passage

v.4And Esther’s maidens and her chamberlains came and told it her; and the queen was exceedingly grieved: and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take his sackcloth from off him; but he received it not.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Esther 4:16

    Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day: I also and my maidens will fast in like manner; and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to the law: and if I perish, I perish.

  • Isaiah 22:4

    Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

  • Matthew 25:30

    And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

  • Matthew 13:42

    and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

  • Isaiah 58:5

    Is such the fast that I have chosen? the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Jehovah?

  • Isaiah 22:12

    And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: