Quotes about Sackcloth
They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.
— Ezekiel 27:31
Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
— Joel 1:8
Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
— Joel 1:13
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
— Amos 8:10
And the Ninevites believed God. They proclaimed a fast and dressed in sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.
— Jonah 3:5
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
— Jonah 3:6
Furthermore, let both man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and have everyone call out earnestly to God. Let each one turn from his evil ways and from the violence in his hands.
— Jonah 3:8
And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
— Revelation 11:3
Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes.
— Anonymous