Genesis 37:34
34Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.2 Samuel 3:31
David Mourns Abner
31Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, a“Tear your clothes and bput on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.2 Samuel 14:2
2And Joab sent to cTekoa and brought from there a wise woman and said to her, “Pretend to be a mourner and put on mourning garments. dDo not anoint yourself with oil, but behave like a woman who has been mourning many days for the dead.1 Kings 21:27-29
27And when Ahab heard those words, he etore his clothes and fput sackcloth on his flesh and gfasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. 28And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, 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; hbut in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.”2 Kings 19:1-2
Isaiah Reassures Hezekiah
1 iAs soon as King Hezekiah heard it, jhe tore his clothes and kcovered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord. 2And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, lcovered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.Esther 4:1-3
Esther Agrees to Help the Jews
1When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes mand 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, nwith fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them olay in sackcloth and ashes.Isaiah 22:12
12 In that day pthe Lord God of hostscalled for weeping and mourning,
for qbaldness and rwearing sackcloth;
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