Thematic Bible: A symbol of mourning
Thematic Bible
Ashes » A symbol of mourning
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her vest of many colours which was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went away, crying out as she went.
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And when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his garments, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry,
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And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing: many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Howl, Heshbon! for Ai is laid waste; cry, daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth, lament and run to and fro within the enclosures: for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground.
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And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes;
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And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
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Daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and roll thyself in ashes: make mourning, as for an only son bitter lamentation; for the spoiler cometh suddenly upon us.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and rolled my horn in the dust.
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For this, gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl! for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned away from us.
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Wail like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save thy life. And they girded sackcloth on their loins, and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben-Hadad says, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
In their streets they are girded with sackcloth; on their roofs, and in their broadways, every one howleth, melted into tears.
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Related Topics
- Afflictions Of The Wicked
- Ai, The City
- Asceticism, Types
- Ashes
- Ashes Of Humiliation
- Baldness
- Bowing
- Bowing Heads Before God
- Cloth
- Clothing Oneself
- Clothing, Tearing Of
- Dust On The Head
- Dust, Figurative Use
- Exiled Foreigners
- Fasting
- Fasting And Prayer
- Fasting, Accompanied By
- Fasting, Examples Of
- Fasting, Nature Of
- Fasting, Practice Of
- Fine Clothes
- Foul Clothes
- God Is Gracious
- Haircloth
- Heads
- Horns Weakened
- Individuals Being Silent
- Knives
- Lamenting
- Marriage, Between God And His People
- Marriage, Customs Concerning
- Mourning
- Mourning Death
- Others Mourning
- People Mourning Catastrophe
- Prayer, Practicalities Of
- Prostration
- Provinces
- Roof
- Rooftop
- Sackcloth And Ashes
- Shame Will Come