Bible Verses About Sackcloth: A symbol of mourning

And his servants said to him: Behold, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful; so let us put sackcloths on our loins, and ropes on our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: perhaps he will save our lives.

So they girded sackcloths on their loins, and put ropes on their heads, and came to the king of Israel, and said to him: Thy servant, Benadad, saith: I beseech thee let me have my life. And he said: If he be yet alive, he is my brother.

He hath torn me with wound upon wound, he hath rushed in upon me like a giant.

In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.

For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us.

Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Howl, O Hesebon, for Hai is wasted. Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for Melchom shall be carried into captivity, his priests, and his princes together.

Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.

And I set my face to the Lord, my God, to pray and make supplication with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.