Mourning

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• 2 Kings 19:1 OT

  When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

• 2 Kings 22:11 OT

  When the king had heard the words of the book of the law, he tore his clothes.

• 2 Kings 22:19 OT

  because your heart was tender, and you humbled yourself before Yahweh, when you heard what I spoke against this place, and against its inhabitants, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and have torn your clothes, and wept…

• Ezra 9:3 OT

  When I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled the hair out of my head and of my beard, and sat down confounded.

• Ezra 9:5 OT

  At the evening offering I arose up from my humiliation, even with my garment and my robe torn; and I fell on my knees, and spread out my hands to Yahweh my God;

• Job 1:20 OT

  Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

• Job 2:12 OT

  When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

• Isaiah 37:1 OT

  When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.

• Matthew 26:65 NT

  Then the high priest tore his clothing, saying, “He has spoken blasphemy! Why do we need any more witnesses? Behold, now you have heard his blasphemy.

• Acts 14:14 NT

  But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

• Genesis 38:14 OT

  She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate of Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she wasn’t given to him as a wife.

• Jeremiah 7:29 OT

  Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

• 2 Samuel 15:30 OT

  David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

• 2 Samuel 19:4 OT

  The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

• Esther 6:12 OT

  Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

• Jeremiah 14:3 OT

  Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 14:4 OT

  Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

• Leviticus 13:45 OT

  “The leper in whom the plague is shall wear torn clothes, and the hair of his head shall hang loose. He shall cover his upper lip, and shall cry, ‘Unclean! Unclean!’

• Ezekiel 24:17 OT

  Sigh, but not aloud. Make no mourning for the dead. Bind your headdress on you, and put your sandals on your feet. Don’t cover your lips, and don’t eat mourner’s bread.”

• Ezekiel 24:22 OT

  You will do as I have done. You won’t cover your lips or eat mourner’s bread.

• Micah 3:7 OT

  The seers shall be disappointed, and the diviners confounded. Yes, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer from God.”

• Exodus 33:4 OT

  When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.

• Exodus 33:6 OT

  The children of Israel stripped themselves of their jewelry from Mount Horeb onward.

• Isaiah 20:2 OT

  at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your sandals from off your feet.” He did so, walking naked and barefoot.