Jonah 3:6

Tree of Life Version

When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his robe, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in the ashes.

Cross References

1 Kings 21:27

Now when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth and walked about subdued.

Job 2:8

He took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself while he was sitting among the ashes.

Job 42:6

Therefore I despise myself, and repent on dust and ashes.”

Isaiah 15:3

In their streets they wear sackcloth. On their housetops and in their plazas, everyone wails, weeping profusely.

Jeremiah 13:18

Say to the king and the queen mother: “Sit down low, for your glorious crown has fallen from your head.”

Jeremiah 36:13

Then Micaiah reported to them all the words that he had heard Baruch reading out of the scroll in the ears of the people.

Jeremiah 36:24

Yet neither the king, nor any of his servants who heard all these words were afraid, nor tore their clothes.

Jeremiah 6:26

“Daughter of My people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son with bitter lamentation.” “For suddenly the destroyer will come on us!”

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with 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 come down from their thrones. They will cast aside their robes. They will take off their richly woven garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground. They will tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Daniel 9:3

So I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes.

Micah 1:10

Tell it not in Gath—weep not at all. At Beth-le-aphrah roll in the dust.

Matthew 11:21

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

Luke 10:13

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