Jonah 3:6

New American Bible - revised edition

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth over his bare flesh. He fasted, slept in the sackcloth, and went about subdued.

Job 2:8

He took a potsherd to scrape himself, as he sat among the ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I disown what I have said, and repent in dust and ashes. Job’s Restoration.

Isaiah 15:3

In the streets they wear sackcloth, and on the rooftops; In the squares everyone wails, streaming with tears.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother: come down from your throne; From your heads your splendid crowns will fall.

Jeremiah 36:13

Micaiah reported to them all that he had heard Baruch read from his scroll in the hearing of the people.

Jeremiah 36:24

As they were listening to all these words the king and all his officials did not become alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.

Jeremiah 6:26

Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing: “How suddenly the destroyer comes upon us!”

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit silently on the ground; They cast dust on their heads and dress in sackcloth; The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 3:29

To put one’s mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope—

Ezekiel 26:16

All the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, Lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed in mourning, they will sit on the ground And tremble, horror-struck and appalled at you.

Daniel 9:3

I turned to the Lord God, to seek help, in prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

Micah 1:10

Do not announce it in Gath, do not weep at all; In Beth-leaphrah roll in the dust.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.