* in every province.
  1:1  3:12 
 * great mourning.
   It cannot reasonably be doubted, that the mournings, fastings,
   and weepings of the Jews were attended by constant prayers and
   supplications; though all mention of them, and of the glorious
   God whom they worshipped, seems to have been studiously
   avoided.

  1Sa 4:13,14  11:4  Isa 22:4,12  37:1-3 
 * weeping.
  Mt 13:42  22:13  25:30 
 * many lay in sackcloth and ashes.  Heb. sackcloth and ashes
   were laid under many.
  Isa 58:5  Da 9:3