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  1. Mordecai Persuades Esther to Help

    When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
  2. In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.
  6. “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.
  7. “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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8 topical index results for “sackcloth and ashes”

INSTRUCTION : Symbolically wearing sackcloth and going barefoot (Isaiah 20:2,3)
ISAIAH : Symbolically wears sackcloth, and walks barefoot as a sign to Israel (Isaiah 20:2,3)
WICKED (PEOPLE) » Compared with » Ashes under the feet (Malachi 4:3)