Job 2:12
When they looked from a distance and did not recognize him [because of his disfigurement], they raised their voices and wept; and each one tore his robe [in grief] and they threw dust over their heads toward the sky [in sorrow].
Nehemiah 9:1
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the Israelites assembled with fasting and in sackcloth and with dirt
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the Daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground keeping silent;
They have thrown dust on their heads,
They have covered themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
Ezekiel 27:30
And they will make their voice heard [as they wail loudly] over you
And they will cry bitterly.
They will throw dust on their heads;
They will wallow in ashes.
Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell face downward on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Israel; and [with great sorrow] they put dust on their heads.
Job 1:20
Then Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head [in mourning for the children], and he fell to the ground and worshiped [God].
Genesis 27:34
When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried out with a great and extremely bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, O my father!”
Judges 2:4
When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people raised their voices and wept.
Ruth 1:19-21
So the two of them went on until they came to Bethlehem. And when they arrived in Bethlehem, the whole city was
1 Samuel 11:4
1 Samuel 30:4
Then David and the people who were with him raised their voices and wept until
2 Samuel 13:36
And when he finished speaking, the king’s sons came, and they raised their voices and wept; and the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
Esther 4:1
Now when Mordecai learned of everything that had been done, he tore his clothes [in mourning], and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the center of the city and cried out loudly and bitterly.
Job 19:14
“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
Lamentations 4:7-8
Her princes were purer than snow,
They were whiter than milk [in appearance];
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Their polishing was like lapis lazuli (sapphire).
Revelation 18:19
And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, for the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich from her great wealth, because in one hour she has been laid waste!’
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Knew him
They rent
Sprinkled dust upon
General references
Bible References
Knew him
“My relatives have failed [me],
And my intimate friends have forgotten me.
Her princes were purer than snow,
They were whiter than milk [in appearance];
They were more ruddy in body than rubies,
Their polishing was like lapis lazuli (sapphire).
Their voice
They rent
Sprinkled dust upon
The elders of the Daughter of Zion
Sit on the ground keeping silent;
They have thrown dust on their heads,
They have covered themselves with sackcloth.
The virgins of Jerusalem
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
And they will make their voice heard [as they wail loudly] over you
And they will cry bitterly.
They will throw dust on their heads;
They will wallow in ashes.