⁶ Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust on their heads.^(A)

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

4 When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;^(A)

¹¹ And all the Israelite men, women, and children living at Jerusalem prostrated themselves before the temple and put ashes on their heads and spread out their sackcloth before the Lord.^(A)

⁴¹ The woman who appeared to you a little while ago, whom you saw mourning and whom you began to console^(A)

⁴⁴ The woman whom you saw is Zion, which you now behold as a city being built.^[a](A)