Jonah 3:6

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

The news reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

It happened, when Ach'av heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Job 2:8

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.*

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets, they dress themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say you to the king and to the queen mother, Humble yourselves, sit down; for your headdresses are come down, even the crown of your glory.

Jeremiah 36:13

Then Mikhayahu declared to them all the words that he had heard, when Barukh read the book in the ears of the people.

Jeremiah 36:24

They were not afraid, nor tore their garments, neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words.

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Tziyon sit on the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Yerushalayim hang down their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 3:29

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

Daniel 9:3

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:10

Don't tell it in Gat. Don't weep at all. At Beit-La`afrah I have rolled myself in the dust.

Matthew 11:21

*Woe to you, Kora'zin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the mighty works had been done in Tzor and Tzidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

*Woe to you, Kora'zin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For if the mighty works had been done in Tzor and Tzidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.