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Read the Full Article →(Covering the heavens with,) of severe judgments
(Girding with,) of heavy afflictions
(Heavens becoming as,) of severe judgments
(Putting of,) of joy and gladness
A symbol of mourning
1 Kings 20:31
1 Kings 20:32
Daniel 9:3
Ezekiel 7:18
Isaiah 15:3
Jeremiah 4:8
Jeremiah 6:26
Jeremiah 49:3
Job 16:15
Joel 1:8
Lamentations 2:10
Animals covered with, at time of national mourning
At funerals
By God's prophets
By persons in affliction
Frequently next the skin in deep afflictions
Girt about the loins
In the streets
Made of coarse hair
No one clothed in, allowed into the palaces of kings
Of a black colour
Often over the whole person
Often with ropes on the head
Rough and unsightly
The Jews lay in, when in deep affliction
With ashes on the head
Worn by Jacob when it was reported to him that Joseph had been devoured by wild beasts