Jonah 3:6

New International Version

When Jonah’s warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.

Job 2:8

Then Job took a piece of broken pottery and scraped himself with it as he sat among the ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself and repent in dust and ashes.”

Isaiah 15:3

In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Come down from your thrones, for your glorious crowns will fall from your heads.”

Jeremiah 36:13

After Micaiah told them everything he had heard Baruch read to the people from the scroll,

Jeremiah 36:24

The king and all his attendants who heard all these words showed no fear, nor did they tear their clothes.

Jeremiah 6:26

Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 3:29

Let him bury his face in the dust— there may yet be hope.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you.

Daniel 9:3

So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:10

Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all. In Beth Ophrah roll in the dust.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.