Bible Verses About Sackcloth: A symbol of mourning

His servants said to him, "Here now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Isra'el are merciful kings. If it's all right with you, let's put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Isra'el. Maybe he will spare your life."

So they put sackcloth around their waists and ropes on their heads, went to the king of Isra'el and said, "Your servant Ben-Hadad says, 'Please spare my life.'" And he answered, "He's still alive? He is my brother."

"I sewed sackcloth together to cover my skin and laid my pride in the dust;

In the streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their squares, everyone howls and weeps profusely.

So wrap yourselves in sackcloth, lament and wail, for ADONAI's fierce anger has not turned away from us.

Daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, roll in ashes, mourn as if for an only son, wail most bitterly; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

"Wail, Heshbon, for 'Ai is doomed! Cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Wear sackcloth and mourn, running here and there among the sheep pens. For Malkam will go into exile, together with his priests and officers.

The leaders of the daughter of Tziyon sit on the ground in silence. They throw dust on their heads; they are wearing sackcloth. The unmarried women of Yerushalayim lower their heads to the ground.

They will put on sackcloth; horror will cover them; every face will be ashamed, every head shaved bald.

I turned to Adonai, God, to seek an answer, pleading with him in prayer, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the husband of her youth!