Jonah 3:6

Revised Standard Version

Then tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, removed his robe, and covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

And when Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted and lay in sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

Job 2:8

And he 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.”

Isaiah 15:3

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

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your beautiful crown has come down from your head.”

Jeremiah 36:13

And Micaiah told them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the scroll in the hearing of the people.

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words, was afraid, nor did they rend their garments.

Jeremiah 6:26

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

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.

Lamentations 3:29

let him put his mouth in the dust— there may yet be hope;

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and supplications with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:10

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

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.

Luke 10:13

“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, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.