16 Bible Verses about Haircloth
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They answered him, “He was a hairy man with a [wide] leather band bound around his loins.” And Ahaziah said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
“For this reason, put on sackcloth [for mourning],
Lament (mourn with expressions of grief for the dead) and wail,
For the fierce anger of the Lord
Has not turned back from us.”
Yet you keep saying, ‘I am innocent;
Surely His anger has turned away from me.’
Behold (listen very carefully), I will bring you to judgment and will plead my case against you
Because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
I looked when He (the Lamb) broke open 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;
Wail like a virgin [bride] clothed with sackcloth
For the bridegroom of her youth [who has died].
Every man who had in his possession blue or purple or scarlet fabric, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and rams’ skins dyed red and porpoise skins, brought them.
“Then you shall make [exterior] curtains of goats’ hair as a tent over the tabernacle. You shall make eleven curtains in all.
Then he made curtains of goats’ hair for a tent over the tabernacle; he made eleven curtains in all.
You shall purify every garment and every article made of leather and all the things made of goats’ hair, and every article made of wood.”
And Michal took the household idol and laid it on the bed, put a pillow of goats’ hair at its head, and covered it with clothes.
When the messengers came in, there was the household idol on the bed with a quilt of goats’ hair at its head.
And in that day the [false] prophets will each be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies, and they will not wear a hairy robe [of true prophets] in order to deceive,
Now this same John had clothing made of camel’s hair and a [wide] leather band around his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey.