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Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold
When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord.
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He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
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I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth its covering.”
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Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?
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So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.
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Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
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Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.
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“Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is destroyed! Cry out, you inhabitants of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; rush here and there inside the walls, for Molek will go into exile, together with his priests and officials.
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The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
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They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.
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They will shave their heads because of you and will put on sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and with bitter mourning.
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So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
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Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.
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A Call to Lamentation
Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
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I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
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The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
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When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.
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But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.
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“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
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“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
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I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
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And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
