Psalms 35:13Open English Bible (US)
But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,
But when they were sick, I put on sackcloth, and chastened myself with fasting. I prayed with head bowed low,
Ruth 4:6
“I cannot buy it for myself without spoiling my own inheritance,” the near relative said. “You take my right of buying it as a relative, because I cannot do so.”
Esther 4:1
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and strewed ashes on his head, and went out into the city and raised a loud and bitter cry of lamentation.
Esther 4:2
He went as far as the king’s gate, but no one could enter the gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:3
In every province, wherever the king’s command and decree went, there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing among the Jews. Many of them sat in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 9:31
to confirm these days of Purim in their proper times, to be observed as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had directed and as the Jews had proscribed for themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry of lamentation.