Fondare 54 Risultati per: sackcloth
Joakim the high priest and all who stood before the Lord, the Lord's priests and ministers, wore sackcloth round their loins as they offered the perpetual burnt offering and the votive and voluntary offerings of the people. (Judith 4, 14)
She had had an upper room built for herself on the roof. She wore sackcloth next to the skin and dressed in widow's weeds. (Judith 8, 5)
Judith threw herself face to the ground, scattered ashes on her head, undressed as far as the sackcloth she was wearing and cried loudly to the Lord. At the same time in Jerusalem the evening incense was being offered in the Temple of God. Judith said: (Judith 9, 1)
There she removed the sackcloth she was wearing and taking off her widow's dress, she washed all over, anointed herself plentifully with perfumes, dressed her hair, wrapped a turban round it and put on the robe of joy she used to wear when her husband Manasseh was alive. (Judith 10, 3)
When Mordecai learned what had happened, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth and ashes. Then he walked into the centre of the city, wailing loudly and bitterly, (Esther 4, 1)
until he arrived in front of the Chancellery, which no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter. (Esther 4, 2)
And in every province, no sooner had the royal command and edict arrived, than among the Jews there was great mourning, fasting, weeping and wailing, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes. (Esther 4, 3)
When Queen Esther's maids and officers came and told her, she was overcome with grief. She sent clothes for Mordecai to put on instead of his sackcloth, but he refused them. (Esther 4, 4)
I have sewn sackcloth over my skin, thrown my forehead in the dust. (Job 16, 15)
You have turned my mourning into dancing, you have stripped off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy. (Psalms 30, 11)
But I, when they were ill, had worn sackcloth, and mortified myself with fasting, praying ever anew in my heart, (Psalms 35, 13)
I dress myself in sackcloth and become their laughing-stock, (Psalms 69, 11)
