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Esther 4:1–4, “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; And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth. 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. So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received it not.”
As a Jews, Mordecai was devastated when he heard of Haman’s plan. He wasn’t just concerned about his own fate but he cared about the fate of his people as well. It is natural for anyone to want to see their own people, language and culture survive in the long term. Mordecai began to mourn, in the accepted way of his time, by wearing sackcloth and putting ashes on his head but he had to stay outside the palace grounds. When Esther heard that Mordecai was wearing sackcloth and was covered in ashes she sent some of her servants to give him good clothes to wear but he refused to change his clothes.
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