Abraham answered, “Let me take it upon myself to speak to my lord, I who am but dust and ashes.

You shall make pots for its ashes and shovels and basins and forks and firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.

He shall remove its entrails close to its tail feathers and throw it at the east side of the altar, in the place for ashes.

The priest shall put on his linen vestments after putting on his linen undergarments next to his body, and he shall take up the ashes to which the fire has reduced the burnt offering on the altar and place them beside the altar.

Then he shall take off his vestments and put on other garments and carry the ashes out to a clean place outside the camp.

They shall take away the ashes from the altar and spread a purple cloth over it,

Then someone who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and they shall be kept for the congregation of the Israelites for the water for cleansing. It is a purification offering.

The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening. “This shall be a perpetual statute for the Israelites and for the alien residing among them.

For the unclean they shall take some ashes of the burnt purification offering, and running water shall be added in a vessel;

But Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long robe that she was wearing; she put her hand on her head and went away, crying aloud as she went.

He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign that the Lord has spoken: The altar shall be torn down, and the ashes that are on it shall be poured out.”

The altar also was torn down, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the Lord.

The king commanded the high priest Hilkiah, the priests of the second order, and the guardians of the threshold to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels made for Baal, for Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Esther Agrees to Help the Jews

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes and went through the city, wailing with a loud and bitter cry;

In every province, wherever the king’s command and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and most of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.

Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mingle tears with my drink,

He gives snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes.

He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him astray, and he cannot save himself or say, “Is not this thing in my right hand a fraud?”

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?

to provide for those who mourn in Zion— to give them a garland instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the mantle of praise instead of a faint spirit. They will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, to display his glory.

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only child, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.