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Popular Bible Verses about Sackcloth

Found 48 Verses

Revelation 6:12

Bible Rank: 1,639
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red NIV
When He [the Lamb] broke open the sixth seal, I looked, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun grew black as sackcloth of hair, [the full disc of] the moon became like blood. [Joel 2:10, 31.] AMP
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; KJV

Revelation 11:3

Bible Rank: 2,536
"And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth." NIV
And I will grant the power of prophecy to My two witnesses for 1,260 (42 months; three and one-half years), dressed in sackcloth. AMP
And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. KJV

Joel 1:8

Bible Rank: 3,540
Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth. NIV
Lament like a virgin [bride] girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth [who has died]. AMP
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. KJV

Jonah 3:6

Bible Rank: 3,556
When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust. NIV
For word came to the king of Nineveh [of all that had happened to Jonah, and his terrifying message from God], and he arose from his throne and he laid his robe aside, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. AMP
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. KJV

Joel 1:13

Bible Rank: 3,929
Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn; wail, you who minister before the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister before my God; for the grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. NIV
Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my [Joel's] God, for the cereal or meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. AMP
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God. KJV

Amos 8:10

Bible Rank: 4,166
I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day. NIV
And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation, and I will cause sackcloth to be put upon all loins and baldness [for mourning] shall come on every head; and I will make that time as the mourning for an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day. AMP
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. KJV

2 Samuel 12:16

Bible Rank: 5,097
David pleaded with God for the child. He fasted and spent the nights lying in sackcloth on the ground. NIV
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted and went in and lay all night [repeatedly] on the floor. AMP
David therefore besought God for the child; and David fasted, and went in, and lay all night upon the earth. KJV

Matthew 11:21

Bible Rank: 5,850
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes." NIV
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes [and their hearts would have been changed]. AMP
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. KJV

Jeremiah 4:8

Bible Rank: 6,008
So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us. NIV
For this, gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us. AMP
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the LORD is not turned back from us. KJV

Jonah 3:8

Bible Rank: 6,322
But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence. NIV
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth and let them cry mightily to God. Yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. AMP
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands. KJV

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