bSee 2 Sam. 3:31
gSee 2 Sam. 3:31
Genesis 37:34
34Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.1 Kings 21:27
27And when Ahab heard those words, he atore his clothes and bput sackcloth on his flesh and cfasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.1 Kings 21:29
29“Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; dbut in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”2 Kings 6:30
30When the king heard the words of the woman, ehe tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, fhe had sackcloth beneath on his body—Esther 4:1-4
Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
1When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes gand 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, hwith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them ilay in sackcloth and ashes.4When Esther’s young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them.
Psalms 35:13
13But I, jwhen they were sick—I kwore sackcloth;
I lafflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed mwith head bowed ▼
▼Or my prayer shall turn back
on my chest.Jonah 3:8
8but let man and obeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. pLet everyone turn from his evil way and from qthe violence that is in his hands.Matthew 11:21
21 r“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in sTyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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