Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.
And I will grand my two witness authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.
When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord .
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! Woe unto thee, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
WhenI told Ahab these things, he ripped his clothes, put sackcloth on andwept.
And came even before the king's gate: for none might enter into the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.
When he opened the sixth seal, I looked, and behold, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black as sackcloth, the full moon became like blood.
Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
They declared a fast, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted.
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
They set aside the sackcloth paper at the spiritual table, lit a purple incense, inserted it into a perfume stove replaced by a porcelain jar, bowed, and went into the heap to gossip.
And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.
You can argue that refusing to apologize for or hide your body under a sackcloth is a feminist act.
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
I thought that he'd posted the letter, but a week later he came to me in sackcloth and ashes to say that he'd found it still in his pocket.
