Genesis 37:34

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

Genesis 37:29

Reuben came back to the pit and found that Joseph was not there. He tore his clothes in sorrow.

2 Samuel 3:31

David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

2 Samuel 1:11

David and all his men tore their clothes in sorrow.

1 Kings 20:31

His servants said to him: It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life.

1 Kings 21:27

Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.

2 Kings 19:1

When King Hezekiah heard their report he tore his clothes in grief. He dressed in sackcloth and went to the Temple of Jehovah.

1 Chronicles 21:16

David saw the angel standing in midair, holding his sword in his hand, ready to destroy Jerusalem. Then David and the leaders of the people, all of whom were wearing sackcloth bowed low, with their faces touching the ground.

Ezra 9:3-5

Hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.

Esther 4:1-3

When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes in anguish. Then he dressed in sackcloth, covered his head with ashes, and walked through the city, wailing loudly and bitterly,

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

Job 2:12

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

Psalm 69:11

When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.

Isaiah 22:12-13

In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist,

Isaiah 36:22-2

Then Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace and was son of Hilkiah, Shebna the scribe, and Joah, who was the royal historian and the son of Asaph, went to Hezekiah with their clothes torn in grief. They told him the message from the field commander.

Jeremiah 36:24

The king and all his attendants did not show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read.

Joel 2:13

Rip apart your heart, and not your garments. Turn to Jehovah your God! He is gracious and merciful. He is slow to anger and abundant in loving-kindness. He will turn back from doing harm.

Jonah 3:5-8

The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

Matthew 11:21

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon that were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest ripped his robes apart and said: He has said evil against God! Why do we need more witnesses? You have heard his words of blasphemy!

Acts 14:14

When the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they ripped their clothes, and ran in among the people.

Revelation 11:3

I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.

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