Thematic Bible: Sackcloth
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David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.
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When King Hezekiah heard their report he tore his clothes in grief. He dressed in sackcloth and went to the Temple of Jehovah.
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Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.
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Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.
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Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Cry loudly, Heshbon, because Ai is destroyed. Cry, people of Rabbah, put on your sackcloth, and mourn. Run back and forth between the walls. Milcom will be taken away into captivity with its priests and officials.
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The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.
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I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
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O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
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Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah's burning anger has not turned back from us.
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Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
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His servants said to him: It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life. So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said: Your servant Benhadad says: 'Let me now keep my life.' And he said: Is he still living? He is my brother.
They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By God's prophets
John wore clothes made from camel's hair. He had a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
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I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy a thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.
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He was a hairy man wearing a cloak made of animal skins, tied with a leather belt, they answered. It is Elijah! The king exclaimed.
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At that time Jehovah spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him: Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet. He did this and went around stripped and barefoot.
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Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.
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Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth you ministers of my God! The meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the House of your God.
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Rizpah daughter of Aiah spread some sackcloth on a nearby rock. She would not let the birds land on the bodies during the day. She kept the wild animals away at night. She stayed there from the beginning of the harvest until it started to rain.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth.
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Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.
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Tremble you women who are at ease. Be troubled you complacent ones. Undress and put sackcloth on your waist,
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
Elijah finished speaking. Ahab tore his clothes and took them off. He dressed in sackcloth. He refused food (fasted) and slept in the sackcloth. He was gloomy and depressed.
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I have sewed sackcloth over my skin and thrust my horn (strength) in the dust.
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Hearing this, the king tore his clothes. The people close to the wall could see that he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » By persons in affliction
The people of Nineveh believed God and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
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Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting sackcloth and dust on their bodies.
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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
His servants said to him: It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life.
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Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.
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Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
John wore clothes made from camel's hair. He had a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey.
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When he opened the sixth seal I saw a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became like blood.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
When he opened the sixth seal I saw a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became like blood.
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Sackcloth » Of a black color
When he opened the sixth seal I saw a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became like blood.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often over the whole person
When King Hezekiah heard their report he tore his clothes in grief. He dressed in sackcloth and went to the Temple of Jehovah. He sent Eliakim the official in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the senior priests to the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz. They also were dressed in sackcloth.
Sackcloth » Rough and unsightly
It will happen! The prophets, each one of them will be ashamed of his vision and his prophesy. They will not wear a hairy mantle to deceive.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » Often with ropes on the head
His servants said to him: It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » At funerals
David told Joab and everyone with him: Show your sorrow by tearing your clothes and wearing sackcloth! Walk in front of Abner's body and cry! David walked behind the coffin on which Abner's body was being carried.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
I clothe the heavens in darkness and cover them with sackcloth.
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Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
You turned my mourning into dancing. You loosed my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears.
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Sackcloth » Was worn » With ashes on the head
When Mordecai learned what had been done, he tore his clothes in anguish. Then he dressed in sackcloth, covered his head with ashes, and walked through the city, wailing loudly and bitterly,
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Sackcloth » No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
until he came to the entrance of the palace. He did not go in because no one wearing sackcloth was allowed inside.
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Sackcloth » Worn » By jacob
Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.
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Sackcloth » Animals covered with, at a time of national mourning
Let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast. Let them sincerely call on God! Let them turn away each one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.
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