Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Wail, you people in Heshbon, because Ai in Ammon is destroyed. Cry out in anguish, you people in the villages surrounding Rabbah. Put on sackcloth and cry out in mourning. Run about covered with gashes. For your god Milcom will go into exile along with his priests and officials.
(Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem's young women stare down at the ground.
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
So I said, "Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us."
So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying, 'The fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us!'"
Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
His advisers said to him, "Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives." So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel. They said, "Your servant Ben Hadad says, 'Please let me live!'" Ahab replied, "Is he still alive? He is my brother."
In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.
Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.
Weeping » Caused by sin
Immediately a rooster crowed a second time. Then Peter remembered what Jesus had said to him: "Before a rooster crows twice, you will deny me three times." And he broke down and wept.
"A noise is heard on the hilltops. It is the sound of the people of Israel crying and pleading to their gods. Indeed they have followed sinful ways; they have forgotten to be true to the Lord their God.
"Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry. "Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
Then you came back and wept before the Lord, but he paid no attention to you whatsoever.
In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.
When Esau heard his father's words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father, "Bless me too, my father!"