Esther 4:1
"When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;"
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- Daniel 9:3
"And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 1:11
"Then David took hold on his clothes, and rent them; and likewise all the men that were with him:"
Read in chapter → - 2 Samuel 13:19
"And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 27:30
"And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:"
Read in chapter → - Job 42:6
"Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes."
Read in chapter → - Revelation 18:17
"For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,"
Read in chapter → - Acts 14:14
"Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes, and ran in among the people, crying out,"
Read in chapter → - Micah 1:8
"Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls."
Read in chapter → - Zephaniah 1:14
"The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly."
Read in chapter → - Ezekiel 21:6
"Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes."
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