Job 16:15
15I have sewed asackcloth upon my skinand have laid bmy strength cin the dust.
Isaiah 15:3
3in the streets they wear sackcloth;on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
Isaiah 32:9-11
Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 dRise up, you women ewho are at ease, hear my voice;you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
10In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent women;
for the grape harvest fails,
the fruit harvest will not come.
11Tremble, you women fwho are at ease,
shudder, you complacent ones;
gstrip, and make yourselves bare,
hand tie sackcloth around your waist.
Jeremiah 4:8
8For this iput on sackcloth,lament and wail,
for jthe fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned back from us.”
Jeremiah 6:26
26O daughter of my people, kput on sackcloth,and lroll in ashes;
mmake mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.
Jeremiah 48:37
37 n“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. oOn all the hands are gashes, and paround the waist is sackcloth.Jeremiah 49:3
3 “Wail, O qHeshbon, for Ai is laid waste!Cry out, O daughters of rRabbah!
sPut on sackcloth,
lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!
For tMilcom shall go into exile,
uwith his priests and his officials.
Lamentations 2:10
10 The elders of the daughter of Zionvsit on the ground win silence;
xthey have thrown dust on their heads
and yput on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
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