Thematic Bible: A symbol of mourning


Thematic Bible



And Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of many colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying. Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesClothing, Tearing OfAshesWeepingFine ClothesThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

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; Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesAshesLamentingThose Who Tore ClothesAshes Of Humiliation

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; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes. Verse ConceptsProvincesAshesWailingPeople Mourning Catastrophe

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is plundered: cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro inside the walls; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together. Verse ConceptsAi, The CitySackcloth And AshesAfflictions Of The WickedExiled Foreigners

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. Verse ConceptsdaughtersDust, Figurative UseBowingHeadsSackcloth And AshesSprinklingClothing OneselfBowing Heads Before GodSitting In DejectionDust On The HeadIndividuals Being Silent


They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. Verse ConceptsBaldnessHeadsKnivesMourningShavingFoul ClothesShame Will Come

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. Verse ConceptsAshesLamentingSuddenlyThose Who DestroyAshes Of HumiliationOthers Mourning

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and laid my strength in the dust. Verse ConceptsSackcloth And AshesHorns Weakened

For this gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail: for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us. Verse ConceptsClothLamentingHaircloth


And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, I pray you, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save your life. So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, I pray you, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.

In their streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall wail, weeping abundantly. Verse ConceptsProstrationRoofSackcloth And AshesSorrowRooftop