³⁹ And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

³ And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

4 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;

⁵³ Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.