Esther 4:1-3

LITV(i) 1 And Mordecai understood all that was done, and Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry. 2 And he came until he was before the king's gate; for there was no entering into the king's gate in clothing of sackcloth. 3 And in every province, wherever the king's word and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping and wailing. Sackcloth and ash were spread on many.