Jonah 3:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When the king of Nineveh heard what was happening, he also dressed in sackcloth; he left the royal palace and sat in dust.

Cross References

Job 2:8

Then Job sat on the ash heap to show his sorrow. And while he was scraping his sores with a broken piece of pottery,

Job 42:6

That's why I hate myself and sit here in dust and ashes to show my sorrow.

Isaiah 15:3

In the towns and at home, everyone wears sackcloth and cries loud and long.

Jeremiah 13:18

The LORD told me to tell you that your king and his mother must surrender their thrones and remove their crowns.

Jeremiah 36:13

Micaiah told them what he had heard Baruch reading to the people.

Jeremiah 6:26

and attacks without warning. So mourn, my people, as though your only child had died. Wear clothes made of sackcloth and roll in the ash heap.”

Lamentations 2:10

Zion's leaders are silent. They just sit on the ground, tossing dust on their heads and wearing sackcloth. Her young women can do nothing but stare at the ground.

Lamentations 3:29

Being rubbed in the earth can teach us a lesson;

Ezekiel 26:16

The kings will step down from their thrones, then take off their royal robes and fine clothes, and sit on the ground, trembling. They will be so shocked at the news of your defeat that they will shake in fear

Daniel 9:3

Then, to show my sorrow, I went without eating and dressed in sackcloth and sat in ashes. I confessed my sins and earnestly prayed to the LORD my God: Our Lord, you are a great and fearsome God, and you faithfully keep your agreement with those who love and obey you.

Micah 1:10

Don't tell it in Gath! Don't even cry. Instead, roll in the dust at Beth-Leaphrah.

Matthew 11:21

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are in for trouble too! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.

Luke 10:13

You people of Chorazin are in for trouble! You people of Bethsaida are also in for trouble! If the miracles that took place in your towns had happened in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have turned to God long ago. They would have dressed in sackcloth and put ashes on their heads.