Esther 4:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

And many lay in sackcloth and ashes All day long they fasted, and wept, and lamented; and in the night many lay, not in their beds, but in sack or haircloth strewed with ashes.

Esther 4:3

3 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 manya lay in sackcloth and ashes.