jSee 2 Sam. 3:31
Psalms 35:13-14
13But I, awhen they were sick—I bwore sackcloth;
I cafflicted myself with fasting;
I prayed dwith head bowed ▼
▼Or my prayer shall turn back
on my chest.14I went about as though I grieved for my friend or my brother;
as one who laments his mother,
I fbowed down in mourning.
Isaiah 20:2
2at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet,” and he did so, walking gnaked and barefoot.Isaiah 22:12
12 In that day hthe Lord God of hostscalled for weeping and mourning,
for ibaldness and jwearing sackcloth;
Joel 1:8
8 Lament like a virgin ▼▼Or young woman
lwearing sackclothfor the bridegroom of her youth.
Joel 1:13
A Call to Repentance
13 mPut on sackcloth and lament, nO priests;owail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, ppass the night in sackcloth,
qO ministers of my God!
rBecause grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
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