Jonah 3:6

God's Word

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his robe, put on sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these things, he tore his clothes ⌞in distress⌟ and dressed in sackcloth. He fasted, lay in sackcloth, and walked around depressed.

Job 2:8

Job took a piece of broken pottery to scratch himself as he sat in the ashes.

Job 42:6

That is why I take back what I said, and I sit in dust and ashes to show that I am sorry.”

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they wear sackcloth. On their roofs and in their city squares everyone wails and cries.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and his mother, “Come down from your thrones, because your crowns have fallen off your heads.”

Jeremiah 36:13

Micaiah told them everything he heard Baruch read from the scroll publicly.

Jeremiah 36:24

The king and all his attendants didn’t show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read.

Jeremiah 6:26

Wear sackcloth, and roll around in ashes, my people. Mourn as if you have lost your only child, and cry bitterly. The destroyer will suddenly attack us.

Lamentations 2:10

The respected leaders of Zion’s people sit silently on the ground. They throw dirt on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 3:29

They should put their mouths in the dust. Maybe a reason to hope exists.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then the princes from the coast will come down from their thrones. They will remove their robes and take off their embroidered clothes. Dressed in terror, they will sit on the ground. They will tremble constantly and be shocked at you.

Daniel 9:3

So I turned to the Lord God and looked to him for help. I prayed, pleaded, and fasted in sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:10

Don’t report it in Gath. Don’t cry there. Roll in the dust of Beth Leaphrah.

Matthew 11:21

“How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in you had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

“How horrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How horrible it will be for you, Bethsaida! If the miracles worked in your cities had been worked in Tyre and Sidon, they would have changed the way they thought and acted. Long ago they would have worn sackcloth and sat in ashes.