Thematic Bible: Sackcloth
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David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!" Now King David followed behind the funeral bier.
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When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord's temple.
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Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
(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.
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A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner's brand will replace beauty.
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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.
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(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.
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So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
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They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
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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."
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
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So put on sackcloth! Mourn and wail, saying, 'The fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us!'"
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Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.
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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.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By God's prophets
Now John wore clothing made from camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
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And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.
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They replied, "He was a hairy man and had a leather belt tied around his waist." The king said, "He is Elijah the Tishbite."
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At that time the Lord announced through Isaiah son of Amoz: "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet." He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments and barefoot.
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Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.
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Get dressed and lament, you priests! Wail, you who minister at the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you servants of my God, because no one brings grain offerings or drink offerings to the temple of your God anymore.
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Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain fell on them, she did not allow the birds of the air to feed on them by day, nor the wild animals by night.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
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A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner's brand will replace beauty.
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Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves -- put sackcloth on your waist!
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He slept in sackcloth and walked around dejected.
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I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and buried my horn in the dust;
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When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By persons in affliction
The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.
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On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.
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I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Girt about the loins
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."
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Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.
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Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
Now John wore clothing made from camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his diet consisted of locusts and wild honey.
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Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;
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Sackcloth » Of a black color
Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red;
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often over the whole person
When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord's temple. He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, clothed in sackcloth, with this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:
Sackcloth » Rough and unsightly
"Therefore, on that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies and will no longer wear the hairy garment of a prophet to deceive the people.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often with ropes on the head
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."
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Sackcloth » Was worn » At funerals
David instructed Joab and all the people who were with him, "Tear your clothes! Put on sackcloth! Lament before Abner!" Now King David followed behind the funeral bier.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth."
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy.
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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.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » With ashes on the head
Now when Mordecai became aware of all that had been done, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth and ashes. He went out into the city, crying out in a loud and bitter voice.
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Sackcloth » No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
But he went no further than the king's gate, for no one was permitted to enter the king's gate clothed in sackcloth.
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Sackcloth » Worn » By jacob
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned for his son many days.
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Sackcloth » Animals covered with, at a time of national mourning
Every person and animal must put on sackcloth and must cry earnestly to God, and everyone must turn from their evil way of living and from the violence that they do.
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