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Isaiah 3:26
Then her gates will lament and mourn; deserted, she will sit on the ground.
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Job 2:12-13
When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.
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Isaiah 15:3
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on its rooftops and in its public squares everyone wails, falling down and weeping.
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Amos 8:3
In that day the temple songs will become wailing”— this is the Lord GOD’s declaration.“ Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”
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Lamentations 1:1
How she sits alone, the city once crowded with people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has been put to forced labor.
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Lamentations 3:28
Let him sit alone and be silent, for God has disciplined him.
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Ezekiel 7:18
They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald.
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Lamentations 1:4
The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.
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Isaiah 47:1
“ Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoiled.
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Joshua 7:6
Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.
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2 Samuel 13 19
Tamar put ashes on her head and tore the long-sleeved robe she was wearing. She put her hand on her head and went away crying out.
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Lamentations 4:5
Those who used to eat delicacies are destitute in the streets; those who were reared in purple garments huddle in trash heaps.
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Jeremiah 8:14
Why are we just sitting here? Gather together; let’s enter the fortified cities and perish there, for the LORD our God has destroyed us. He has given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against the LORD.
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Isaiah 36:22
Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn and reported to him the words of the royal spokesman.
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Lamentations 5:14
The elders have left the city gate, the young men, their music.
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Joel 1:8
Grieve like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, mourning for the husband of her youth.
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Amos 8:13
In that day the beautiful young women, the young men also, will faint from thirst.
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Lamentations 4:16
The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are not respected; the elders find no favor.
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Ezekiel 27:31
They shave their heads because of you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They weep over you with deep anguish and bitter mourning.
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Amos 5:13
Therefore, those who have insight will keep silent at such a time, for the days are evil.
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Lamentations 5:12
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
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Isaiah 47:5
“ Daughter Chaldea, sit in silence and go into darkness. For you will no longer be called mistress of kingdoms.
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Revelation 18:19
They threw dust on their heads and kept crying out, weeping, and mourning, Woe, woe, the great city, where all those who have ships on the sea became rich from her wealth; for in a single hour she was destroyed.