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Genesis 18:27
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27 Then Abraham spoke up again: “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, though I am nothing but dust and ashes,(A)

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Genesis 18:27
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27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:

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Esther 4:3
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3 In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Esther 4:3
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3 And in every province, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Esther 3
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Job 16:15
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15 “I have sewed sackcloth(A) over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.(B)

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Job 16:15
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, and defiled my horn in the dust.

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Job 15
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Job 19:9
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9 He has stripped(A) me of my honor(B)
    and removed the crown from my head.(C)

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Job 19:9
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9 He hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.

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Job 18
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Job 30:19
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19 He throws me into the mud,(A)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(B)

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Job 30:19
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19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

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Job 29
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Job 42:6
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6 Therefore I despise myself(A)
    and repent(B) in dust and ashes.”(C)

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Job 42:6
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6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

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Job 41
Psalm 1
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Psalm 7:5
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5 then let my enemy pursue and overtake(A) me;
    let him trample my life to the ground(B)
    and make me sleep in the dust.[a](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 7:5 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here.
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Psalm 7:5
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5 Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.

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Isaiah 58:5
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5 Is this the kind of fast(A) I have chosen,
    only a day for people to humble(B) themselves?
Is it only for bowing one’s head like a reed(C)
    and for lying in sackcloth and ashes?(D)
Is that what you call a fast,
    a day acceptable to the Lord?

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Isaiah 58:5
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5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

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Isaiah 57
Isaiah 59
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Isaiah 61:3
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3     and provide for those who grieve in Zion—
to bestow on them a crown(A) of beauty
    instead of ashes,(B)
the oil(C) of joy
    instead of mourning,(D)
and a garment of praise
    instead of a spirit of despair.
They will be called oaks of righteousness,
    a planting(E) of the Lord
    for the display of his splendor.(F)

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Isaiah 61:3
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3 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

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Jeremiah 6:26
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26 Put on sackcloth,(A) my people,
    and roll in ashes;(B)
mourn with bitter wailing(C)
    as for an only son,(D)
for suddenly the destroyer(E)
    will come upon us.

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Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.

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Jeremiah 5
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Lamentations 3:29
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29 Let him bury his face in the dust(A)—
    there may yet be hope.(B)

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Lamentations 3:29
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29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

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Ezekiel 26:16
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16 Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered(A) garments. Clothed(B) with terror, they will sit on the ground,(C) trembling(D) every moment, appalled(E) at you.

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Ezekiel 26:16
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16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

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Ezekiel 25
Ezekiel 27
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Jonah 3:5-8
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5 The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.(A)

6 When Jonah’s warning 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.(B) 7 This is the proclamation he issued in Nineveh:

“By the decree of the king and his nobles:

Do not let people or animals, herds or flocks, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.(C) 8 But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call(D) urgently on God. Let them give up(E) their evil ways(F) and their violence.(G)

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Jonah 3:5-8
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5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

6 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.

7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

8 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.

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