Ezra 9:3-5
3As soon as I heard this, I atore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and bsat appalled. 4Then all who ctrembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat dappalled until the evening sacrifice. 5And at the eevening sacrifice I rose from my fasting, with my garment fand my cloak torn, and fell upon my knees gand spread out my hands to the Lord my God,Nehemiah 9:1
The People of Israel Confess Their Sin
1Now on the twenty-fourth day of hthis month the people of Israel were assembled iwith fasting jand in sackcloth, kand with earth on their heads.Esther 4:1-3
Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
1When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes land put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry. 2He went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth. 3And in every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, mwith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them nlay in sackcloth and ashes.Job 1:20
20Then Job arose and otore his probe and qshaved his head rand fell on the ground and worshiped.Job 2:12
12And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they store their robes and sprinkled tdust on their heads toward heaven.Psalms 69:11
11When I made usackcloth my clothing,I became va byword to them.
Isaiah 22:12-13
12 In that day wthe Lord God of hostscalled for weeping and mourning,
for xbaldness and ywearing sackcloth;
13and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
z“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
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