Thematic Bible: A symbol of mourning
Thematic Bible
Ashes » A symbol of mourning
Tamar put ashes on her head, and she tore the long-sleeved robe which [was] on her. She put her hand on her head, and {she went away, crying out as she went}.
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Mordecai learned all that had been done and he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes. And he went through the middle of the city and cried out a loud and bitter cry;
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In every province [each] place where the king's edict and his law came, there [was] great mourning for the Jews with fasting, crying, wailing, [and] sackcloth; and ashes were spread out as a bed for them.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
"Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated. Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah, put on sackcloth. Lament and run back and forth among the walls. For Milcom will go into exile, his priests and his officials together.
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They sit on the ground, the elders of the daughter of Zion are silent. They cast dust on their head, they have put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their head down to the ground.
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Then I turned my face to the Lord God to seek [him] [by] prayer and pleas for mercy, in fasting and [in] sackcloth and ashes.
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And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of [the] faces [will be] shame, and baldness on all of their heads.
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O daughter of my people, gird yourself [with] sackcloth, and roll about in the ashes in mourning, a mourning ceremony [as for] an only child. Make for yourself wailing of bitterness, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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"I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and I have inserted {my pride} in the dust.
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Because of this gird yourselves [with] sackcloth, lament and wail, for {the burning anger} of Yahweh has not turned back from us.
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Lament like a virgin girded in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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Then his servants said to him, "Please now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are kings of mercy. Let us now put sackcloth on around our waists and ropes on our heads. Then let us go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps {he will let you live}." So they tied sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads. Then they went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please let me live.'" And he said, "[Is] my brother still alive?"
They gird themselves [with] sackcloth in its streets; on its roofs and public squares everyone wails, going down in weeping.
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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