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Genesis 37.34:

Then Jacob tore his garments, and put sackcloth on his loins, and mourned for his son for many days.

2 Samuel 3.31:

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, ‘Tear your clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourn over Abner.’ And King David followed the bier.

2 Samuel 21.10:

Then Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it on a rock for herself, from the beginning of harvest until rain fell on them from the heavens; she did not allow the birds of the air to come on the bodies^* by day, or the wild animals by night.

1 Kings 20.31:

His servants said to him, ‘Look, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings; let us put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will spare your life.’

1 Kings 20.32:

So they tied sackcloth around their waists, put ropes on their heads, went to the king of Israel, and said, ‘Your servant Ben-hadad says, “Please let me live.” ’ And he said, ‘Is he still alive? He is my brother.’

1 Kings 21.27:

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.

2 Kings 6.30:

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—

2 Kings 19.1:

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 19.2:

And he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

1 Chronicles 21.16:

David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven, and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.

Nehemiah 9.1:

Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with dust on their heads.^*

Esther 4.1:

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;

Esther 4.2:

he went up to the entrance of the king’s gate, for no one might enter the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

Esther 4.3:

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.

Esther 4.4:

When Esther’s maids and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed; she sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth; but he would not accept them.

Job 16.15:

I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin,
and have laid my strength in the dust.

Psalm 30.11:

You have turned my mourning into dancing;
you have taken off my sackcloth
and clothed me with joy,

Psalm 35.13:

But as for me, when they were sick,
I wore sackcloth;
I afflicted myself with fasting.
I prayed with head bowed^* on my bosom,

Psalm 69.11:

When I made sackcloth my clothing,
I became a byword to them.

Isaiah 3.24:

Instead of perfume there will be a stench;
   and instead of a sash, a rope;
and instead of well-arranged hair, baldness;
   and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth;
   instead of beauty, shame.^*