Isaiah 15:3
3in the streets they wear sackcloth;on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
Isaiah 22:12
12 In that day athe Lord God of hostscalled for weeping and mourning,
for bbaldness and cwearing sackcloth;
Isaiah 32:11
11Tremble, you women dwho are at ease,shudder, you complacent ones;
estrip, and make yourselves bare,
fand tie sackcloth around your waist.
Jeremiah 6:26
26O daughter of my people, gput on sackcloth,and hroll in ashes;
imake mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.
Joel 2:12-13
Return to the Lord
12 “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,j“return to me with all your heart,
kwith fasting, with weeping, and with mourning;
13and lrend your hearts and not myour garments.”
Return to the Lord your God,
nfor he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
oand he relents over disaster.
Amos 8:10
10 pI will turn your feasts into mourningand all your songs into lamentation;
qI will bring sackcloth on every waist
rand baldness on every head;
sI will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
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