Esther 4:1-4

ECB(i) 1
ESTER TOLD OF THE PLOT OF HAMAN
And Mordekay perceives all that was worked, and Mordekay rips his clothes and enrobes saq with ashes; and goes midst the city and cries a great and a bitter cry; 2 and he even comes at the face of the portal of the sovereign - for no one enters the portal of the sovereign enrobed with saq. 3 And in jurisdiction by jurisdiction whatever place the word of the sovereign and his edict touches, there is great mourning among the Yah Hudiym and fasting and weeping and chopping; and many spread in saq and ashes. 4 And the lasses of Ester and her eunuchs come and tell her. And the sovereigness writhes mightily; and she sends clothes to enrobe Mordekay and to turn aside his saq from him; but he takes it not.