Isaiah 15:3

Revised Standard Version

in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.

Cross References

2 Samuel 3:31

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Rend your clothes, and gird on sackcloth, and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the words of the woman he rent his clothes—now he was passing by upon the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath upon his body—

Isaiah 15:2

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;

Isaiah 22:1

The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said: “Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Jeremiah 19:13

The houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah—all the houses upon whose roofs incense has been burned to all the host of heaven, and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods—shall be defiled like the place of Topheth.’ ”

Jeremiah 48:37

“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; upon all the hands are gashes, and on the loins is sackcloth.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have cast dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 7:18

They gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror covers them; shame is upon all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Matthew 11:21

“Woe to you, Chorazin! woe to you, Beth-saida! for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Deuteronomy 22:8

“When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, that you may not bring the guilt of blood upon your house, if any one fall from it.

James 5:1

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.

1 Samuel 5:12

the men who did not die were stricken with tumors, and the cry of the city went up to heaven.