Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 4:1

1 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 bitter cry :

Partly to express his deep sense of the mischief coming upon his people: partly to move the pity of others to do what they could to prevent it: and partly that by this means it might come to the Queens ear.