Thematic Bible: Sackcloth
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Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
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As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.
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Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
"Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his officials.
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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
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O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
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For this put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned back from us."
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Lament like a virginwearing sackcloth for the bridegroom 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 put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life." So they tied sackcloth around their waists and put ropes on their heads and went to the king of Israel and said, "Your servant Ben-hadad says, 'Please, let me live.'" And he said, "Does he still live? He is my brother."
in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By God's prophets
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
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And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."
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They answered him, "He wore a garment of hair, with a belt of leather about his waist." And he said, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."
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at that time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
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Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Go in, pass the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God! Because grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
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Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it for herself on the rock, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell upon them from the heavens. And she did not allow the birds of the air to come upon them by day, or the beasts of the field by night.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
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Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
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Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and tie sackcloth around your waist.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
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When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes--now he was passing by on the wall--and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body--
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By persons in affliction
And the people of Nineveh believed God. They called for a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least of them.
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Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.
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When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword to them.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Girt about the loins
And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life."
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Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
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Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
Now John wore a garment of camel's hair and a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
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When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
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Sackcloth » Of a black color
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood,
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often over the whole person
As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD. And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.
Sackcloth » Rough and unsightly
"On that day every prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies. He will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive,
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often with ropes on the head
And his servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life."
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Sackcloth » Was worn » At funerals
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And King David followed the bier.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
I clothe the heavens with blackness and make sackcloth their covering."
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
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Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
in the streets they wear sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » With ashes on the head
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.
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Sackcloth » No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
He went up to the entrance of the king's gate, for no one was allowed to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
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Sackcloth » Worn » By jacob
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
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Sackcloth » Animals covered with, at a time of national mourning
but let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
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