Ezekiel 27:30

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and wail aloud over you and cry bitterly. They throw dust on their heads and wallow in ashes;

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:2

On the third day, a man came from Saul’s camp with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. When he came to David, he fell to the ground and did obeisance.

Job 2:12

When they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him, and they raised their voices and wept aloud; they tore their robes and threw dust in the air upon their heads.

Job 2:8

Job took a potsherd with which to scrape himself and sat among the ashes.

Job 42:6

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

Jeremiah 25:34

Wail, you shepherds, and cry out; roll in ashes, you lords of the flock, for the days of your slaughter have come—and your dispersions, and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only child, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Lamentations 2:10

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

Ezekiel 26:17

And they shall raise a lamentation over you and say to you: “How you have vanished from the seas, O city renowned, once mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland!

Jonah 3:6

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

Micah 1:10

Tell it not in Gath; weep not at all; in Beth-leaphrah roll yourselves in the dust.

1 Samuel 4:12

A man of Benjamin ran from the battle line and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with earth upon his head.