Thematic Bible: Sackcloth
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Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.
Girdles » Made of » Sackcloth
They have thrown
They have girded themselves with
The
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of
Instead of fine clothes, a
And branding instead of beauty.
Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah,
And rush back and forth inside the walls;
For
Together with his priests and his princes.
They have thrown
They have girded themselves with
The
Have bowed their heads to the ground.
So I gave my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.
They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads.
And
A lamentation most bitter.
For suddenly the destroyer
Will come upon us.
Lament and wail;
For the
Has not turned back from us.”
For the bridegroom of her youth.
His servants said to him, "Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings, please let us put sackcloth on our loins and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel; perhaps he will save your life." So they girded sackcloth on their loins and put ropes on their heads, and came 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."
Everyone is wailing,
Sackcloth » Was worn » By God's prophets
Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for twelve hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”
They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a leather girdle bound about his loins.” And he said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your hips and take your shoes off your feet.” And he did so, going naked and barefoot.
Sackcloth » The jews lay in, when in deep affliction
It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
And lament, O priests;
Come,
O ministers of my God,
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
To
Instead of a belt, a rope;
Instead of
Instead of fine clothes, a
And branding instead of beauty.
Sackcloth » Was worn » Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
It came about when Ahab heard these words, that he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and fasted, and he lay in sackcloth and went about despondently.
When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body.
Sackcloth » Was worn » By persons in affliction
Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them.
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the sons of Israel assembled with fasting, in sackcloth and with dirt upon them.
Sackcloth » Was worn » Girt about the loins
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Sackcloth » Made of coarse hair
Now John himself had a garment of camel’s hair and a leather belt around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.
I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (heavens becoming black as,) of severe judgments
I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
Sackcloth » Of a black color
I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood;
Sackcloth » Was worn » Often over the whole person
And when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the LORD. Then he sent Eliakim who was over the household with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
Sackcloth » Rough and unsightly
Also it will come about in that day that the prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not put on a hairy robe in order to deceive;
Sackcloth » Was worn » Often with ropes on the head
Sackcloth » Was worn » At funerals
Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
And make sackcloth their covering.”
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (putting of,) of joy and gladness
You have
Sackcloth » Was worn » In the streets
Everyone is wailing,
Sackcloth » Was worn » With ashes on the head
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city and wailed loudly and bitterly.
Sackcloth » No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
He went as far as the king’s gate, for no one was to enter the king’s gate clothed in sackcloth.
Sackcloth » Worn » By jacob
So Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Sackcloth » Animals covered with, at a time of national mourning
But both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth; and let men call on God earnestly that each may turn from his wicked way and from the violence which is in his hands.