sackcloth|sackclothes in English

noun

coarse fabric used to make sacks; garment made from coarse fabric and worn as a sign of mourning or repentance

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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.