Isaiah 32:11
11Tremble, you women awho are at ease,shudder, you complacent ones;
bstrip, and make yourselves bare,
cand tie sackcloth around your waist.
Isaiah 36:22
22 dThen Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.Isaiah 37:1-2
Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah’s Help
1 eAs soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered 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, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet fIsaiah the son of Amoz.Jeremiah 36:24
24Yet gneither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, hnor did they tear their garments.Joel 2:13
13and irend your hearts and not jyour garments.”Return to the Lord your God,
kfor he is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love;
land he relents over disaster.
Jonah 3:5-8
5 mAnd the people of Nineveh believed God. nThey called for a fast and oput on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.The People of Nineveh Repent
6The word reached ▼▼Or had reached
the king of Nineveh, and qhe arose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, rand sat in ashes. 7And he issued a proclamation and published through Nineveh, s“By the decree of the king and his nobles: Let neither man nor tbeast, herd nor flock, taste anything. Let them not feed or drink water, 8but let man and ubeast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. vLet everyone turn from his evil way and from wthe violence that is in his hands. Matthew 11:21
21 x“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in yTyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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