SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:3
Y en cada provincia donde el mandamiento del rey y su ley llegaba, tenían los judíos grande luto, y ayuno, y lloro, y lamentación; cilicio y ceniza era la cama de muchos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Esther 4:3
Verse 3. Fasting, and weeping, and wailing] How astonishing, that in all this there is not the slightest intimation given of praying to God!
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 3. And in every province whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came , etc.] For destroying the Jews on such a day, in every place where they were to be found: there was great mourning among the Jews, and weeping, and wailing ; which continued all day: and many lay in sackcloth and ashes : all night; made use of no other bed to lie on, nor clothes to cover them with.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-4 - Mordecai avowed his relation to the Jews. Public calamities, tha oppress the church of God, should affect our hearts more than an private affliction, and it is peculiarly distressing to occasio sufferings to others. God will keep those that are exposed to evil by the tenderness of their consciences.
Original Hebrew
ובכל 3605 מדינה 4082 ומדינה 4082 מקום 4725 אשׁר 834 דבר 1697 המלך 4428 ודתו 1881 מגיע 5060 אבל 60 גדול 1419 ליהודים 3064 וצום 6685 ובכי 1065 ומספד 4553 שׂק 8242 ואפר 665 יצע 3331 לרבים׃ 7227
