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Bible Verses About Sackcloth

This collection includes 50 passages about Sackcloth. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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They shall have linen bonnets upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.

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And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

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And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

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And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,

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Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

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And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth,

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But Samuel ministered before the Lord, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

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I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.

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And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.

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He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.

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And came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter into the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

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But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.

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Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee.

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They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

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The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

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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.

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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.

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For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

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And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.

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For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke.

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And every man, with whom was found blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair, and red skins of rams, and badgers’ skins, brought them.

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And he answered and spake unto those that stood before him, saying, Take away the filthy garments from him. And unto him he said, Behold, I have caused thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with change of raiment.

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And the napkin, that was about his head, not lying with the linen clothes, but wrapped together in a place by itself.

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And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

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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.

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And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

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And thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen, and thou shalt make the mitre of fine linen, and thou shalt make the girdle of needlework.

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The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

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I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

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And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,

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And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

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I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

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So I got a girdle according to the word of the Lord, and put it on my loins.

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And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them.

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And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office,

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And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

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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.

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I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons’ garments, to minister in the priest’s office.

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