1 Kings 21:27
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27 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.(A)
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2 Kings 6:30
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30 When the king heard the words of the woman he tore his clothes—now since he was walking on the city wall, the people could see that he had sackcloth on his body underneath(A)—
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Genesis 37:34
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34 Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.(A)
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2 Samuel 3:31
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31 Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.” And King David followed the bier.(A)
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Joel 1:13
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A Call to Repentance and Prayer
13 Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests;
wail, you ministers of the altar.
Come, pass the night in sackcloth,
you ministers of my God!
Grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.(A)
Isaiah 58:5-8
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5 Is such the fast that I choose,
a day to humble oneself?
Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush
and to lie in sackcloth and ashes?
Will you call this a fast,
a day acceptable to the Lord?(A)
6 Is not this the fast that I choose:
to loose the bonds of injustice,
to undo the straps of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free,
and to break every yoke?(B)
7 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry
and bring the homeless poor into your house;
when you see the naked, to cover them
and not to hide yourself from your own kin?(C)
8 Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your healing shall spring up quickly;
your vindicator[a] shall go before you;
the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.(D)
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- 58.8 Or vindication
Isaiah 38:15
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15 But what can I say? For he has spoken to me,
and he himself has done it.
All my sleep has fled[a]
because of the bitterness of my soul.(A)
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- 38.15 Cn Compare Syr: Heb I will walk slowly all my years
Isaiah 22:12
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12 On that day the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and putting on sackcloth,(A)
Job 16:15
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid my strength in the dust.(A)
2 Kings 18:37
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37 Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.(A)
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2 Samuel 12:16-17
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16 David therefore pleaded with God for the child; David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.(A) 17 The elders of his house stood beside him urging him to rise from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.
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Jonah 3:6
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6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.(A)
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