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Selected Verse: Esther 4:3 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Es 4:3 |
King James |
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 many lay in sackcloth and ashes. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
and many lay
Hebrew, sackcloth and ashes were laid under many. (Isa 58:5); (Dan 9:3). |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Fasting, and weeping, and wailing - How astonishing, that in all this there is not the slightest intimation given of praying to God! |
3 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD?