sackcloth in English

noun
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a very coarse, rough fabric woven from flax or hemp.
Canvas is popular because it's light, rigid, yet elastic at the same time. Canvas can be made from sackcloth , cotton (most popular), synthetic, a combination of materials or even smooth linen.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "sackcloth" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "sackcloth", or refer to the context using the word "sackcloth" in the English Dictionary.

1. Head-wrap, sackcloth.

2. And put sackcloth around your hips.

3. To make his bed on sackcloth and ashes?

4. For shaved heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

5. 8 Wail as a virgin* wearing sackcloth does

6. He kept the club wrapped in sackcloth.

7. He ordered that all wear sackcloth, even the domestic animals.

8. Think that farmers wives still wear sackcloth aprons and wellingtons?

9. They throw dust on their heads and wear sackcloth.

10. 15 I have sewn sackcloth together to cover my skin,+

11. He rips his garments apart and covers himself with sackcloth.

12. 31 They will make themselves bald and put on sackcloth;

13. I clothe the heavens with blackness And make sackcloth their covering.

14. Who is instructed to “gird sackcloth upon the loins,” and why?

15. 69 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and make sackcloth their covering.

16. 30 " What does he put sackcloth and ashes on his head for? " inquired Huck.

17. Hearing the man, Dara stripped off his sackcloth cloak and threw it down.

18. He attended Canterbury in sackcloth and ashes as an act of public penance.

19. They do not weep, cut their hair, or wear sackcloth as a sign of repentance.

20. Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.

21. I will put sackcloth on all hips and make every head bald;

22. They proclaim a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

23. Then she sent garments for Morʹde·cai to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he refused them.

24. I clothe the heavens with obscurity, and I make sackcloth itself their covering.” —Isaiah 50:2b, 3.

25. Then David and the elders of Israel , who were clothed in sackcloth , fell upon their faces.

26. NIV Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock.

27. David and the elders, covered with sackcloth,+ at once threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

28. (Isaiah 20:2) Sackcloth is a coarse garment often worn by the prophets, sometimes in conjunction with a warning message.

29. 18 The call goes forth, then, to false religion: “Undress and make yourselves naked, and gird sackcloth upon the loins.

30. See also: ash, dust, to be in sackcloth and Ashes To behave in a way that shows one

31. With their pastures being denuded, let them spend the night in sackcloth, mourning over their loss of income.

32. (c) When did the 1,260 days begin, and how did the anointed ‘prophesy in sackcloth’ during that period?

33. Distraught, he ripped his clothes, wore sackcloth and placed ashes on his head, and cried aloud in the middle of the city.

34. 13 Hence, from December 1914, this small band of witnesses ‘preached in sackcloth,’ humbly enduring as they announced Jehovah’s judgments.

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36. 32 “‘Now anything they fall on when they die will be unclean, whether a wooden utensil, a garment, a skin, or a piece of sackcloth.

37. At that, “the men of Nineveh began to put faith in God, and they proceeded to proclaim a fast and to put on sackcloth.”

38. LIMA — Peru’s Rafael López Aliaga, an ultra-conservative member of Opus Dei who practices Celibacy and says he wears a sackcloth to keep …

39. Their king “rose up from his throne and put off his official garment from himself and covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the ashes.”

40. On the twenty-fourth day of that same month, the Israelites assembled to fast. They put on sackcloth and sprinkled dust upon their heads.

41. (Matthew 6:17, 18) In Isaiah’s day backsliding Jews found delight in their fasting, afflicting their souls, bowing down their heads, and sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

42. 8 Jehovah tells Isaiah: “Go, and you must loosen the sackcloth from off your hips; and your sandals you should draw from off your feet.”

43. “I proceeded to set my face to Jehovah the true God,” said Daniel, “in order to seek him with prayer and with entreaties, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.”

44. He himself tells us: “I proceeded to set my face to Jehovah the true God, in order to seek him with prayer and with entreaties, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

45. When the word reaches the king of Nineveh, he rises from his throne, removes his official garment, covers himself with sackcloth, and sits down in the ashes.—Jonah 3:4-6.

46. * This same period is mentioned at Revelation 11:3-6, which says that God’s witnesses would preach in sackcloth for three and a half years and then be killed.

47. 30 But should the Republicans control both houses of Congress, they should not expect, in the ashy dawn of November a chastened president to appear in the Rose Garden mantled in sackcloth and ashes.

48. The sixth seal is broken "and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth.

49. (Matthew 20:22, King James Version) As predicted at Revelation 11:3, the 1,260-day period that ensued was a mournful time for the anointed—it was as if they were prophesying in sackcloth.

50. ‘The coffin was forced, the Cerements torn, and the melancholy relics, clad in sackcloth, after being rattled for hours on moonless byways, were at length exposed to uttermost indignities before a class of gaping boys.’