Thematic Bible: Sackcloth
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Then David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. And King David himself followed the bier.
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And when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD.
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Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
Jod The elders of the daughter of Zion sat upon the ground and are silent: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the daughters of Jerusalem hung their heads down to the ground.
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And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet perfumes, there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of well-set hair baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled; cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and run to and fro by the hedges, for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
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Jod The elders of the daughter of Zion sat upon the ground and are silent: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth; the daughters of Jerusalem hung their heads down to the ground.
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And I turned my face unto the Lord God, seeking him in prayer and supplication, in fasting and sackcloth, and ashes:
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They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
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O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth and wallow thyself in ashes; make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.
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I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.
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For this, gird yourselves with sackcloth; lament and howl; for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us.
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Lament like a young woman girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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Then his slaves said unto 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; peradventure he will give thee thy life. So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads and came to the king of Israel and said, Thy slave Benhadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he replied, If he is yet alive, he is my brother.
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping as they come down.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By God's prophets
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
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And I will give my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
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And they answered him, He was a hairy man and girt with a girdle of leather about his loins. And he said, It is Elijah, the Tishbite.
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at the same time the LORD spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
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Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and slept in sackcloth and went softly.
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Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the present and the drink offering is taken away from the house of your God.
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And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth and spread it upon the rock from the beginning of harvest until water rained upon them out of heaven and allowed neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day nor the beasts of the field by night.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
Therefore the Lord GOD of the hosts did call in this day unto weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:
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And it shall come to pass that instead of sweet perfumes, there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of well-set hair baldness and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth and burning instead of beauty.
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Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted and slept in sackcloth and went softly.
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I have sewn sackcloth upon my skin and put dust over my head.
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And when the king heard the words of the woman, he rent his clothes; and he passed by like this upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By persons in affliction
So the people of Nineveh believed God and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month, the sons of Israel were assembled with fasting and with sackcloth and earth upon them.
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I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a proverb to them.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Girt about the loins
Then his slaves said unto 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; peradventure he will give thee thy life.
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Then Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned for his son many days.
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Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair and a leathern girdle about his loins, and his food was locusts and wild honey.
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And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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Sackcloth » Of a black color
And I saw when he had opened the sixth seal, and, behold, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often over the whole person
And when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent 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 scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah, the prophet, the son of Amoz,
Sackcloth » Rough and unsightly
And it shall come to pass in that time, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision when he has prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often with ropes on the head
Then his slaves said unto 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; peradventure he will give thee thy life.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » At funerals
Then David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes and gird yourselves with sackcloth and mourn before Abner. And King David himself followed the bier.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
Thou hast turned my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness;
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Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth; on the tops of their houses and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping as they come down.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » With ashes on the head
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes and put on sackcloth with ashes and went out into the midst of the city and cried with a loud and a bitter cry
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Sackcloth » No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
and came before the king's gate; for no one was allowed to enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
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Sackcloth » Worn » By jacob
Then Jacob rent his clothes and put sackcloth upon 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 cry mightily unto God; and let each one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
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