Genesis 37:34

Joseph Sold Into Slavery

³³ And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat. An evil beast has devoured him; Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces. ³⁴ And Jacob rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days. ³⁵ And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and he said, For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning. And his father wept for him.

Put on

Tore His Clothes

Day After Day

Jacob

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben returned to the pit, and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he rent his clothes,

2 Samuel 3:31

And David said to Joab, and to all the people who were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. And king David followed the bier.

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their heads.

2 Samuel 1:11

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them, and likewise all the men who were with him.

1 Kings 20:31

And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps

1 Kings 21:27

And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings 19:1

And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of LORD.

1 Chronicles 21:16

And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the agent of LORD standing between earth and heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.

Ezra 9:3-5

And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

Nehemiah 9:1

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them.

Esther 4:1-3

Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped.

Job 2:12

And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and did not recognize him, they lifted up their voice, and wept. And each one tore his robe, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Psalm 69:11

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

Isaiah 22:12-13

And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.

Isaiah 32:11

Tremble, ye women who are at ease. Be troubled, ye careless ones. Strip you, and make you bare, and gird [sackcloth] upon your loins.

Isaiah 36:22-2

Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah came, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Jeremiah 36:24

And they were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

Joel 2:13

And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn to LORD your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents of the evil.

Jonah 3:5-8

And 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 thee, Chorazin! Woe to thee, Bethsaida! Because if the mighty works that occurred in you occurred in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Matthew 26:65

Then the high priest tore his garments, saying, He has blasphemed. What further need have we of witnesses? Behold, now ye heard his blasphemy.

Acts 14:14

But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard, having torn their garments, they rushed into the crowd, crying out

Revelation 11:3

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