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Want to know what the Bible says about Sackcloth? Here are 35 Bible verses about Sackcloth from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 3:4 NIV
John’s clothes were made of camel’s hair, and he had a leather belt around his waist. His food was locusts and wild honey.
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Revelation 6:12 NIV
I watched as he opened the sixth seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
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Zechariah 13:4 NIV
“On that day every prophet will be ashamed of their prophetic vision. They will not put on a prophet’s garment of hair in order to deceive.
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2 Kings 1:8 NIV
They replied, “He had a garment of hair and had a leather belt around his waist.”
The king said, “That was Elijah the Tishbite.”
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Isaiah 20:2 NIV
at that time the Lord spoke through Isaiah son of Amoz. He said to him, “Take off the sackcloth from your body and the sandals from your feet.” And he did so, going around stripped and barefoot.
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Revelation 11:3 NIV
And I will appoint my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”
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Nehemiah 9:1 NIV
On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and putting dust on their heads.
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Psalm 69:11 NIV
when I put on sackcloth,
    people make sport of me.
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Jonah 3:5 NIV
The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.
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Genesis 37:34 NIV
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days.
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1 Kings 20:31 NIV
His officials said to him, “Look, we have heard that the kings of Israel are merciful. Let us go to the king of Israel with sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads. Perhaps he will spare your life.”
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1 Kings 21:27 NIV
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and fasted. He lay in sackcloth and went around meekly.
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2 Kings 6:30 NIV
When the king heard the woman’s words, he tore his robes. As he went along the wall, the people looked, and they saw that, under his robes, he had sackcloth on his body.
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Job 16:15 NIV
“I have sewed sackcloth over my skin
    and buried my brow in the dust.
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2 Kings 19:1-2 NIV
19 When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord. 2 He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
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Esther 4:1 NIV
When Mordecai learned of all that had been done, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.
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Isaiah 15:3 NIV
In the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the roofs and in the public squares
they all wail,
    prostrate with weeping.
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2 Samuel 3:31 NIV
Then David said to Joab and all the people with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and walk in mourning in front of Abner.” King David himself walked behind the bier.
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2 Samuel 21:10 NIV
Rizpah daughter of Aiah took sackcloth and spread it out for herself on a rock. From the beginning of the harvest till the rain poured down from the heavens on the bodies, she did not let the birds touch them by day or the wild animals by night.
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Joel 1:13 NIV
Put on sackcloth, you priests, and mourn;
    wail, you who minister before the altar.
Come, spend the night in sackcloth,
    you who minister before my God;
for the grain offerings and drink offerings
    are withheld from the house of your God.
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