and many lay
Hebrew, sackcloth and ashes were laid under many. (Isaiah 58:5); (Daniel 9:3).
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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.