3 And in all the different jurisdictional districts,+ wherever the king’s word and his law were reaching, there was great mourning+ among the Jews, and fasting+ and weeping and wailing. Sackcloth+ and ashes+ themselves came to be spread out as a couch for many.

12 “And the Sovereign+ Lord, Jehovah of armies, will call in that day for weeping+ and for mourning and for baldness and for girding on sackcloth.+

3 And I proceeded to set my face+ to Jehovah* the [true] God,* in order to seek [him] with prayer+ and with entreaties, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.+