Jonah 3:6

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Summary

For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Word

Jeremiah 13:18

And he arose

Psalm 2:10

James 1:9

James 4:6

And covered

General references

Bible References

Word

Say to the king and to the mistress: Make yourselves low -- sit still, For come down have your principalities, The crown of your beauty.

And he arose

And now, O kings, act wisely, Be instructed, O judges of earth,

And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

And covered

And Mordecai hath known all that hath been done, and Mordecai rendeth his garments, and putteth on sackcloth and ashes, and goeth forth into the midst of the city and crieth -- a cry loud and bitter,

And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.

Therefore do I loathe it, And I have repented on dust and ashes.

O daughter of My people, Gird on sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes, The mourning of an only one make for thee, A lamentation most bitter, For suddenly come doth the spoiler against us.

He putteth in the dust his mouth, if so be there is hope.

and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

In Gath tell ye not -- in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.

'Woe to thee, Chorazin! woe to thee, Bethsaida! because, if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago in sackcloth and ashes they had reformed;

'Woe to thee, Chorazin; woe to thee, Bethsaida; for if in Tyre and Sidon had been done the mighty works that were done in you, long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes, they had reformed;

General references

And Jacob rendeth his raiment, and putteth sackcloth on his loins, and becometh a mourner for his son many days,

He who is fearing the word of Jehovah among the servants of Pharaoh hath caused his servants and his cattle to flee unto the houses;

And declare to them doth Micaiah all the words that he hath heard, when Baruch readeth in the book in the ears of the people;

and he was three days without seeing, and he did neither eat nor drink.