Job 16:15

15I have sewed asackcloth upon my skin
and 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 nFor 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 Zion
vsit 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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