Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.
Joel 2:17
As they serve between the porch and the altar, let the priests and ministers of the LORD weep and pray: "Spare your people, LORD, and do not make your heritage a disgrace so that nations ridicule them. Why should they say among the people, "Where is their God?"'"
Joel 1:13
"Put on your mourning clothes, you priests; and cry aloud, you ministering servants at the altar! Come! Stay the night in mourner's clothes, you ministers of my God, because the grain offering and the wine offering is held back from the Temple of your God.
Micah 1:16
"Shave your head and cut off your locks as you mourn your beloved children. Make yourself bald as an eagle, because they will go from you into exile!"
2 Chronicles 35:25
Jeremiah sang a lament for Josiah, and all the male and female singers recite that lamentation about Josiah to this day. In fact, they made singing it an ordinance in Israel, and they are recorded in the Lamentations.
Ezra 9:3
When I heard this, I tore both my garment and robe, plucked hair from both my head and my beard, and collapsed in shock!
Nehemiah 8:9-12
Because all the people were weeping as they listened to the words of the Law, Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the descendants of Levi who taught the people told everyone, "This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep."
Nehemiah 9:9
"You took note of the affliction of our ancestors in Egypt, and listened to their cry at the Red Sea.
Job 1:20
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, shaved his head, fell to the ground, bowed very low,
Ecclesiastes 3:4
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He made everything appropriate in its time. He also placed eternity within them yet, no person can fully comprehend what God is doing from beginning to end.
Isaiah 15:2
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. His head is completely bald, and every beard is shaved off.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your festivals into mourning, and all of your songs to dirges. I will cause all of you to put on sackcloth and to shave all of your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son, and its conclusion will be like the end of a bitter day."
Jonah 3:6
When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, removed his royal garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat down in ashes.
James 4:8-10
Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 5:1
Now listen, you rich people! Cry and moan over the miseries that are overtaking you.