Thematic Bible: A symbol of mourning
Thematic Bible
Ashes » A symbol of mourning
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the robe of many colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on, crying.
And Mordecai understood all that was done, and Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the middle of the city, and cried with a loud and bitter cry.
And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping and wailing. And many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Wail, O Heshbon; Ai is spoiled! Cry, daughters of Rabbah; clothe yourselves with sackcloth, mourn, and run to and fro by the hedges! For their king shall go into exile; his priests and his rulers together.
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and are silent; they send up dust on their heads; they gird on sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
And I set my face toward the Lord God, to seek by prayer and holy desires, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
They shall also gird on sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all heads.
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and wallow in ashes; make mourning for yourself, as for an only son, most bitter weeping; for the ravager shall suddenly come on us.
Put on sackcloth for this, wail and howl; for the fierce anger of Jehovah is not turned back from us.
Weep like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
And his servants said to him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will save your life. And they bound sackcloth on their loins and ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel and said, Your servant Ben-hadad says, Please let me live. And he said, Is he still alive? He is my brother.
In the streets they shall clothe themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, everyone shall howl, melting in tears.
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