Genesis 37:29 And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph [
was] not in the pit; and
he rent his clothes.
Joshua 7:6 And Joshua
rent his clothes, and
fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD
until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and
put dust upon their heads.
2 Samuel 1:11 Then David took hold on his clothes, and
rent them; and
likewise all the men that [
were] with him:
2 Samuel 3:31 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 king David [
himself] followed the
bier.
1 Kings 20:31 And
his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel [
are]
merciful kings:
let us, I pray thee,
put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel:
peradventure he will save thy life.
1 Kings 21:27 And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that
he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and
lay in sackcloth, and
went softly.
2 Kings 19:1 And it came to pass,
when king Hezekiah heard [
it], that
he rent his clothes, and
covered himself with sackcloth, and
went into the house of the LORD.
1 Chronicles 21:16 And David lifted up his eyes, and
saw the angel of the LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders [
of Israel, who were]
clothed in sackcloth,
fell upon their faces.
Ezra 9:3-
5 And when I heard this thing, I
rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked
off the hair of my head and of my beard, and
sat down astonied. ... And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my
heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and
spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
Nehemiah 9:1 Now in the
twenty and fourth day
of this month the
children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and
earth upon them.
Esther 4:1-
3 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; ... And
in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, [
there was]
great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and
weeping, and wailing; and
many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and
rent his
mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
Job 2:12 And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and
knew him not, they lifted up
their voice, and wept; and
they rent every one his mantle, and
sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.
Psalms 69:11 I made sackcloth also my garment; and
I became a proverb to them.
Isaiah 22:12-
13 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts
call to weeping, and to mourning, and
to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: ... And
behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine:
let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, ye women that are at ease;
be troubled, ye careless ones:
strip you, and make you bare,
and gird [
sackcloth] upon [
your] loins.
Isaiah 36:22 Then came
Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that [
was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah
with [their] clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Isaiah 37:1-
2 And
it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard [
it], that
he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth,
and went into the house of the LORD. ... And he sent Eliakim, who [
was] over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
Jeremiah 36:24 Yet
they were not afraid,
nor rent their garments, [
neither] the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
Joel 2:13 And
rend your heart, and not
your garments, and turn unto the LORD your God:
for he [
is] gracious and merciful,
slow to anger, and of great kindness,
and repenteth him of the evil.
Jonah 3:5-
8 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. ... But
let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and
cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from
the violence that [
is] in their hands.
Matthew 11:21 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.
Matthew 26:65 Then
the high priest rent his clothes, saying,
He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.
Acts 14:14 [
Which] when
the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard [
of],
they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,
Revelation 11:3 And I will give [
power] unto my
two witnesses, and
they shall prophesy
a thousand two hundred [
and] threescore days,
clothed in sackcloth.
