Thematic Bible: Sackcloth
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And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner." And king David himself followed the bier.
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Then king Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
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Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
{Yod} The Senators of the daughter Zion sit upon the ground in silence: they have strawed ashes upon their heads, and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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And instead of good smell there shall be stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth; and for their beauty, witheredness and sunburning.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Heshbon shall mourn, for it shall be rooted out of the ground, sayeth the LORD. The cities of Rabbah shall cry out, and gird themselves with sackcloth. They shall mourn, and run about the walls; for their king shall be led away prisoner: yea his priests and princes with him.
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{Yod} The Senators of the daughter Zion sit upon the ground in silence: they have strawed ashes upon their heads, and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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and I turned me unto God the LORD, for to pray and make mine intercession, with fasting, sack cloth and ashes.
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they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald;
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Wherefore, gird a sackcloth about thee, O daughter of my people; sprinkle thyself with ashes, mourn and weep bitterly, as upon the only beloved son: for the destroyer shall suddenly fall upon us.
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I have sewed a sackcloth upon my skin, and lie with my strength in the dust.
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Wherefore gird yourselves about with sackcloth, mourn, and weep, for the fearful wrath of the LORD shall not be withdrawn from you."
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Make thy moan as a virgin doth that girdeth herself with sack, because of her bridegroom.
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Then said his servants unto him, "Behold, we have heard say that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sack cloth about our Loins and ropes about our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: haply he will save thy life." And they girded sack cloth about their loins and put ropes about their heads, and went out to the king of Israel and said, "Thy servant Benhadad sayeth, 'I pray thee let me live.'" And he said, "Is he yet alive? He is my brother." And they took the word for good luck and hastily caught it out of his mouth, and said, "Yea, thy brother Benhadad."
In their streets were they girded about with sackcloth. In all the tops of their houses and streets was there nothing, but mourning and weeping.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By God's prophets
This John had his garment of camel's hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins; his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."
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And they said unto him, "It was a hairy man and girded with a girdle of a skin about his loins." And he said unto them, "It is Elijah the Tishbite."
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Then spake the LORD unto Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose off that sackcloth from thy loins, and put off thy shoes from thy feet." And so he did, going naked and barefoot.
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Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
When Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes and put sackcloth about his flesh and fasted, and lay in sack and went comfortless.
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Gird you, and make your moan, O ye priests: mourn ye ministers of the alter: go your way in, and sleep in sackcloth, O ye officers of my God: for the meat and drink offering shall be taken away from the house of your God.
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And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it under her upon the rock, even from the beginning of harvest until rain dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to fall on them by day nor beasts of the field by night.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
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And instead of good smell there shall be stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth; and for their beauty, witheredness and sunburning.
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O ye rich idle cities, ye that fear no peril: ye shall be abashed and removed, when ye see the bareness, the nakedness, and preparing to war.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
When Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes and put sackcloth about his flesh and fasted, and lay in sack and went comfortless.
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I have sewed a sackcloth upon my skin, and lie with my strength in the dust.
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When the king heard the words of the woman, he rent his clothes even as he was walking on the walls. And when the people looked upon him: see, he was clothed in sack under.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By persons in affliction
And the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed fasting, and arrayed themselves in sackcloth, as well the great as the small of them.
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In the four and twentieth day of this month came the children of Israel together with fasting, and sackcloth, and earth upon them,
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I put on a sackcloth, and therefore they jested upon me.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Girt about the loins
Then said his servants unto him, "Behold, we have heard say that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sack cloth about our Loins and ropes about our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: haply he will save thy life."
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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
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Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
This John had his garment of camel's hair, and a girdle of a skin about his loins; his meat was locusts and wild honey.
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And I beheld when he opened the sixth seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun was as black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon waxed even as blood:
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
And I beheld when he opened the sixth seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun was as black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon waxed even as blood:
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Sackcloth » Of a black color
And I beheld when he opened the sixth seal, and lo there was a great earthquake, and the sun was as black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon waxed even as blood:
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often over the whole person
Then king Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. Furthermore he sent Eliakim, steward of the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
Sackcloth » Rough and unsightly
And then shall those prophets be confounded, everyone of his vision when he prophesieth: neither shall they wear sackcloth anymore, to deceive men withal.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often with ropes on the head
Then said his servants unto him, "Behold, we have heard say that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. Let us put sack cloth about our Loins and ropes about our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: haply he will save thy life."
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Sackcloth » Was worn » At funerals
And David said to Joab and to all the people that were with him, "Rent your clothes and put on 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
As for heaven, I clothe it with darkness, and put as it were a sack upon it.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
Thou hast turned my heaviness into joy; thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
In their streets were they girded about with sackcloth. In all the tops of their houses and streets was there nothing, but mourning and weeping.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » With ashes on the head
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried loud and lamentably,
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Sackcloth » No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
and came before the king's gate: for there might no man enter within the king's gate, that had a sackcloth on.
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Sackcloth » Worn » By jacob
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
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Sackcloth » Animals covered with, at a time of national mourning
And they put on sackcloth both man and beast, and cried unto God mightily, and turned every man from his wicked way, and from doing wrong in which they were accustomed, saying,
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