Esther 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

done. being done.

bitter cry. Not (we may be sure) without confession and prayer, as with Nehemiah (Esther 1), and Daniel 9).

Esther 4:1

1 When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;