Bible Verses About Sackcloth

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!

Cohanim, put on sackcloth, and weep! Wail, you who serve at the altar! Come, lie in sackcloth all night long, you who serve my God! For the grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

when the people of Ninveh believed God. They proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them to the least.

They must be covered with sackcloth, both people and animals; and they are to cry out to God with all their might - let each of them turn from his evil way and from the violence they practice.

When that day comes, each one of the prophets will be shamed by his vision when he prophesies. He will stop wearing a hair cloak to deceive people;

Yochanan wore clothes of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey.

Then I watched as he broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake, the sun turned black as sackcloth worn in mourning, and the full moon became blood-red.

“Also I will give power to my two witnesses; and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”