sackclothA coarse fabric usually made from goat's hair. During Bible times, often with religious symbolism, people put on sackcloth and then sprinkled their heads with ashes as a sign of penitence or mourning. It was a sign of humility and deep repentance before man and, most of all, before God.put sackcloth upon his loins and mourned Gen 37:34put sackcloth upon his flesh and fasted 1 Kin 21:27were assembled with fasting and with sackcloth Neh 9:1put on sackcloth with ashes and went out Esth 4:1thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded Ps 30:11supplication, with fasting and sackcloth Dan 9:3and proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth Jonah 3:5would have repented long ago in sackcloth Matt 11:21
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