In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.I wonder why exactly they were mourning? Was it because they thought they were doomed? Did they think their execution had been announced, and they have lost all hope? Did they think that this time, God had truly abandoned them to their enemies, and this finally would be the end of their people?
Or were they repenting? Did they believe they had greatly sinned again, and were trying to turn back to God's path again? Were they pleading with God for deliverance from this new enemy, after so many years where they had been separated from Him? For that matter, had they sinned again? Did they do something in exile that did cause separation, and were just now recognizing it?
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