with ashes: Est 4:3; Jos 7:6; 2Sa 13:19; Job 2:8, Job 42:6; Isa 58:5; Eze 27:30; Dan 9:3; Jon 3:6; Mat 11:21
and cried: Mordecai gave every demonstration of the most poignant grief. Nor did he hide this from the city; and the Greek says that he uttered these words aloud: Αιρεται εθνος μηδεν ηδικηκος, "A people is going to be destroyed who have done no evil." Gen 27:34; Isa 15:4, Isa 22:4; Eze 21:6, Eze 27:31; Mic 1:8; Zep 1:14; Rev 18:17-19