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he spreads the snow like flax, strews hoarfrost like ashes, (Psalms 147, 16)
That day they fasted and put on sackcloth, covering their heads with ashes and tearing their garments. (1 Maccabees 3, 47)
Recognising this act of aggression as the work of Lysimachus, some snatched up stones, others cudgels, while others scooped up handfuls of ashes lying at hand, and all hurled everything indiscriminately at Lysimachus' men, (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
In that place there is a tower fifty cubits high, full of ash, with an internal lip all round overhanging the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 5)
Deserved justice, this; since he had committed many sins against the altar, the fire and ashes of which were holy, it was in ashes that he met his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
extinguish this and the body turns to ashes, and the spirit melts away like the yielding air. (Wisdom of Solomon 2, 3)
Ashes, his heart; more vile than earth, his hope; more wretched than clay, his life! (Wisdom of Solomon 15, 10)
What has dust and ashes to pride itself on? Even in life its entrails are repellent. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 9)
He surveys the armies of the lofty sky, and all of us are only dust and ashes. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 32)
From the one who sits on a glorious throne to the wretch in dust and ashes, (Ecclesiasticus 40, 3)
He hankers after ashes, his deluded heart has led him astray; he will not save himself, he will not think, 'What I have in my hand is nothing but a lie!' (Isaiah 44, 20)
Is that the sort of fast that pleases me, a day when a person inflicts pain on himself? Hanging your head like a reed, spreading out sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call fasting, a day acceptable to Yahweh? (Isaiah 58, 5)
