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Judith knelt and bowed her head to the ground, put ashes on her head and uncovered the sackcloth with which she was clothed. At precisely the same moment as incense was being offered in the House of God at Jerusalem, Judith invoked aloud the Lord God, she said, (Judith 9, 1)
When Mordecai learned what had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and walked through the city crying bitterly and loudly. (Esther 4, 1)
In every province where the king's edict was read, there was great mourning among the Jews; fasting and weeping with lamentation, and many of them slept on sackcloth and ashes. (Esther 4, 3)
Taking off her splendid robes, she put on garments of distress and mourning. In place of expensive perfumes, she covered her head with dirt and ashes. Humbling her body severely, she put aside all her festive adornments and left her hair disheveled. (Esther 14, 2)
Job took a potsherd to scrape himself and sat among the ashes. (Job 2, 8)
Heaps of ashes are your maxims; mounds of clay are your defenses. (Job 13, 12)
Therefore I retract all I have said, and in dust and ashes I repent. (Job 42, 6)
The bread I eat is ashes, my drink is mingled with tears, (Psalms 102, 10)
He spreads snow like wool; he scatters frost like ashes. (Psalms 147, 16)
They fasted that day, put on sackcloth, sprinkled ashes on their heads and tore their garments. (1 Maccabees 3, 47)
They tore their garments and wept bitterly. Some sprinkled ashes on their heads, (1 Maccabees 4, 39)
So, as the people were attacked by the men of Lysimachus, they reacted by picking up stones and clubs, and even gathered handfuls of ashes lying at hand, and threw everything against the men of Lysimachus. (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
