Sackcloth
24 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
11 sections
- (Covering the Heavens With) of Severe Judgments
- (Girding With) of Heavy Afflictions
- (Heavens Becoming As) of Severe Judgments
- (Putting of) Joy and Gladness
- A Symbol of Mourning
- Animals Covered With, at a Time of National Mourning
- Made of Coarse Hair
- No One Clothed In, Allowed Into the Palaces of Kings
- Rough and Unsightly
- The Jews Lay In, when in Deep Affliction
- Worn by Jacob when It Was Reported to Him That Joseph had been Devoured by Wild Animals
(Covering the Heavens With) of Severe Judgments
- Isaiah 50:3 I clothe the heavens in black and make sackcloth their covering.”
(Girding With) of Heavy Afflictions
- Isaiah 3:24 Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
- Isaiah 22:12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
- Isaiah 32:11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists.
(Heavens Becoming As) of Severe Judgments
- Revelation 6:12 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
(Putting of) Joy and Gladness
- Psalm 30:11 You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
A Symbol of Mourning
- 1 Kings 20:31–32 Then the servants of Ben-hadad said to him, “Look now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful. Let us go out to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he …
- Job 16:15 I have sewn sackcloth over my skin; I have buried my horn in the dust.
- Isaiah 15:3 In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.
- Jeremiah 4:8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”
- Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- Jeremiah 49:3 Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai has been destroyed; cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and mourn; run back and forth within your walls, for Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
- Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
- Ezekiel 7:18 They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.
- Daniel 9:3 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
- Joel 1:8 Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.
Animals Covered With, at a Time of National Mourning
- Jonah 3:8 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.
Made of Coarse Hair
- Matthew 3:4 John wore a garment of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
- Revelation 6:12 And I watched as the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
No One Clothed In, Allowed Into the Palaces of Kings
- Esther 4:2 But he went only as far as the king’s gate, because the law prohibited anyone wearing sackcloth from entering that gate.
Rough and Unsightly
- Zechariah 13:4 And on that day every prophet who prophesies will be ashamed of his vision, and he will not put on a hairy cloak in order to deceive.
The Jews Lay In, when in Deep Affliction
- 2 Samuel 21:10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest until the rain from heaven poured down on the bodies, she did not allow the birds of the air to rest on …
- 1 Kings 21:27 When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around meekly.
- Joel 1:13 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.
Worn by Jacob when It Was Reported to Him That Joseph had been Devoured by Wild Animals
- Genesis 37:34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
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Sackcloth was WornSackcloth was Worn by God's ProphetsSackcloth was Worn by Persons in AfflictionSackcloth of a Black ColourSackcloth was Worn in the StreetsSackcloth was Worn with Ashes on the Head
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.