mourning

And in euery prouince, whithersoeuer the kings commaundement, and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Iewes, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. sackecloth and ashes were laid vnder many.

¶ And Mordecai came againe to the kings gate: but Haman hasted to his house, mourning, and hauing his head couered.

As the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, & the moneth which was turned vnto them, from sorrow to ioy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them daies of feasting and ioy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poore.

Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise vp their mourning.

1611 marginal noteOr, Leuiathan.

I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.

My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.

Thou hast turned for mee my mourning into dauncing: thou hast put off my sackecloth, and girded mee with gladnesse:

I am troubled, I am bowed downe greatly; I goe mourning all the day long.

1611 marginal noteHebr. wryed.

I will say vnto God, My rocke, why hast thou forgotten me? why goe I mourning, because of the oppression of the enemy?

For thou art the God of my strength, why doest thou cast me off? why goe I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?