Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
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Bible References
I made
Psalm 35:13
When they were sick, I wore sackcloth, and refrained from eating food. (If I am lying, may my prayers go unanswered!)
Isaiah 20:2
At that time the Lord announced through Isaiah son of Amoz: "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet." He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments and barefoot.
Isaiah 22:12
At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
Joel 1:8
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
I became
Psalm 44:13
You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
Deuteronomy 28:37
You will become an occasion of horror, a proverb, and an object of ridicule to all the peoples to whom the Lord will drive you.
1 Kings 9:7
then I will remove Israel from the land I have given them, I will abandon this temple I have consecrated with my presence, and Israel will be mocked and ridiculed among all the nations.
Jeremiah 24:9
I will bring such disaster on them that all the kingdoms of the earth will be horrified. I will make them an object of reproach, a proverbial example of disaster. I will make them an object of ridicule, an example to be used in curses. That is how they will be remembered wherever I banish them.
General references
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.
Lamentations 3:14
I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.