Fasting, andweeping, andwailing - How astonishing, that in all this there is not the slightest intimation given of praying to God!
Matthew Henry
Concise Bible Commentary
Mordecai avowed his relation to the Jews. Public calamities, that oppress the church of God, should affect our hearts more than any private affliction, and it is peculiarly distressing to occasion sufferings to others. God will keep those that are exposed to evil by the tenderness of their consciences.
SDA Bible Commentary (limited)
Volume 1-7
3. In every province. The Scripture account implies that by this time the Jews were scattered everywhere throughout the Persian Empire.