Nave’s Topical Bible
Sackcloth
12 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- A symbol of mourning
1 Kings 20:31-32; Job 16:15; Isaiah 15:3; Jeremiah 4:8; Jeremiah 6:26; Jeremiah 49:3; Lamentations 2:10; Ezekiel 7:18; Daniel 9:3; Joel 1:8
- Worn by Jacob when it was reported to him that Joseph had been Devoured by wild animals
- Animals covered with, at a time of national mourning
See MOURNING
Bible verses about “Sackcloth”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- 1 Kings 20:31And 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 20:32So they girded sackcloth on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said, Thy servant Ben–hadad saith, I pray thee, let me live. And he said, Is he yet alive? he is my brother.
- Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.
- Isaiah 15:3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
- Jeremiah 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned back from us.
- Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
- Jeremiah 49:3Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
- Lamentations 2:10The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
- Ezekiel 7:18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
- Daniel 9:3And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
- Joel 1:8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
- Genesis 37:34And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Jonah 3:8But 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.