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 unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your rule shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

And he arose

Be wise now therefore, O you kings: be instructed, you judges of the earth.

Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

But he gives more grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

And covered

When Mordecai perceived 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;

And he took himself a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat down among the ashes.

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

O daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll yourself about in ashes: make yourself mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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

Declare it not at Gath, weep not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll yourself in the dust.

Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they would have a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

General references

And Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

He that feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:

Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

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