Therefore I despise myself, and I repent in dust and ashes.”
and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher t
I was formerly a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a violent man; yet because I had acted in ignorance and unbelief, I was s
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Then Job answered the LORD:
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
There you will remember your ways and all the deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you will loathe yourselv
When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackclot
And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre a
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed and never again open your mouth be
I will get up and go back to my father and say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre
When Mordecai learned of all that had happened, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the m
After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated becau
And last of all He appeared to me also, as to one of untimely birth.
Then you will remember your evil ways and wicked deeds, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and abominati
Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will te
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackclot
then You would plunge me into the pit, and even my own clothes would despise me.
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked arou