Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
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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Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
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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Weeping » Caused by sin
And the second time a cock crew. And Peter remembered the word that Jesus said to him, Before the cock crow twice, thou shalt deny me thrice; and when he thought thereon he wept.
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A voice is heard upon the heights, the weeping supplications of the children of Israel; for they have perverted their way, they have forgotten Jehovah their God.
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Woe to you that are filled, for ye shall hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for ye shall mourn and weep.
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And ye returned and wept before Jehovah, but Jehovah would not listen to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
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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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When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry, and said to his father, Bless me me also, my father!
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