Jonah 3:6

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And worde came vnto the king of Niniue: which arose from his throne, and put of his robe, and couered him selfe with sackcloth, & sate downe in asshes.

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  • Esth 4:1-4 : 1 When Mardocheus perceaued all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth with asshes, and went out into the middest of the citie, and cryed loude and lamentably, 2 And came before the kinges gate: but he might not enter within the kinges gate, because he had sackcloth on. 3 And in all prouinces, countries, and places, as farre as the kinges worde & commaundement extented, there was great lamentatio among the Iewes, fasting, weeping, and mourning, and many lay in sackeclothes and in asshes. 4 So Esthers maydens and her chamberlaynes, came and told it her: Then was the queene exceedingly astonied, and she sent rayment that Mardocheus shoulde put on, and lay the sackcloth from him: But Mardocheus would not take them.
  • Job 2:8 : 8 And he toke a potsharde to scrape hym: and he sat downe among the asshes.
  • Ezek 27:30-31 : 30 And they shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shall crye bitterly, and shall cast dust vpon their heades, and wallowe in the asshes. 31 They shal make them selues bauld for thee, and girde them with sackcloth, & they shal weepe for thee, with sorowefull heart, and bitter mourning.
  • Jas 4:6-9 : 6 But the scripture offereth more grace, and therefore sayth, God resisteth the proude, but geueth grace vnto ye lowlie. 7 Submit your selues therfore to God: but resist the deuyll, and he wyll flee from you. 8 Drawe nye to God, and he wyll drawe nye to you. Clense your handes ye sinners, and purifie your heartes ye double mynded. 9 Suffer afflictions, and mourne, and weepe: Let your laughter be turned to mournyng, and your ioy to heauinesse. 10 Humble your selues in the sight of the Lorde, and he shall lyft you vp.
  • Matt 11:21 : 21 Wo vnto thee Chorazin, wo vnto thee Bethsaida: for if the mightie workes which were shewed in you had ben done in Tyre or Sidon, they had repented long ago in sackcloth and asshes.
  • Luke 10:13 : 13 Wo vnto thee Chorazin, wo vnto thee Bethsaida: For if the miracles had ben done in Tyre and Sidon, whiche haue ben done in you, they had a great whyle ago repented of their sinnes syttyng in sackecloth and asshes.
  • Jas 1:9-9 : 9 Let the brother of lowe degree, reioyce in that he is exalted: 10 Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away.
  • Ps 2:10-12 : 10 Wherfore be you nowe wel aduised O ye kinges: be you learned ye that are iudges of the earth. 11 Serue ye God in feare: and reioyce ye with a trembling. 12 Kisse ye the sonne lest that he be angrye, and so ye perishe from the way, if his wrath be neuer so litle kindled: blessed are all they that put their trust in hym.
  • Jer 6:26 : 26 Wherfore gyrde a sackcloth about thee O thou daughter of my people, sprinkle thy selfe with ashes: mourne and weepe bitterly as vpon thyne onlye beloued sonne, for the destroyer shall sodainly fall vpon vs.
  • Jer 13:18 : 18 Tell the kyng and the queene, humble your selues, sit you downe lowe, for your dignitie shalbe throwen downe, and the crowne of your glorie shall fall from your head.
  • Lam 3:29 : 29 He layeth his face vpon the earth, if there happen to be any hope.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth, and asshes.
  • Mic 1:10 : 10 Declare it not at Gath, neither weepe ye: for the house of Aphra roule thy selfe in the dust.
  • Job 42:6 : 6 Wherefore I geue myne owne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

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    1And the worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionas the second time, saying:

    2Aryse, and go to Niniue that great citie, and preache against it the preaching which I speake vnto thee.

    3So Ionas arose, and went to Niniue according to the word of the Lord (Niniue was a great citie and excellent, of three dayes iourney.)

    4And Ionas began to enter into the citie a dayes iourney, and he cryed & saide: Yet fourtie dayes, & Niniue shalbe destroyed.

    5And the men of Niniue beleued God, and proclaymed a fast, and put on sackecloth from the greatest of them to the leaste of them.

  • Jonah 3:7-10
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    7And he caused a cryer to crye, and say through the citie by the counsell of the king & his nobles, Let neither man nor beast, bullocke nor sheepe, taste ought at all, neither feede, nor drinke water.

    8And let both man & beast put on sackcloth, and crye mightyly vnto God: yea let euery man turne from his euill way, and from the wickednesse that is in his handes.

    9Who can tel whether God wyl turne and be moued with repentaunce, and turne from his fierce wrath, that we perishe not?

    10And God sawe their workes, that they turned from their euil wayes, and he repented of the euill that he saide he woulde do vnto them, and did it not.

  • Jonah 1:1-3
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    1The worde of the Lorde came vnto Ionas the sonne of Amittai, saying:

    2Aryse, & go to Niniue that great citie, and crye against it: for their wickednesse is come vp before me.

    3And Ionas rose vp to flee into Tharsis from the presence of the Lorde, and went downe to Ioppa, and founde a ship going to Tharsis: so he payed his fare, and went downe into it, that he might go with them vnto Tharsis from the presence of the Lorde.

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    6And will cast vpon thee abominable filth, and wil bring thee downe, and wil make thee as vile as doung.

    7And it shall come to passe that all that shall behold thee, shall flee from thee, and shall say, Niniue is destroyed, and who is greeued therwith? from whence shall I seke out comforters for thee?

  • Isa 37:1-2
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    1When Hezekia hearde that, he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went into the temple of the Lorde.

    2But he sent Eliakim the chiefe ouer the householde, Sobna the scribe, with the eldest priestes clothed in sacke, vnto the prophete Esai the sonne of Amos,

  • 2 Kgs 19:1-2
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    1So it came to passe, that when king Hezekia hearde it, he rent his clothes, & put on sacke, & came into the house of the Lorde,

    2And sent Eliakim which was the steward of the houshold, and Sobna the scribe, and the elders of the priestes clothed in sacke, to Isai the prophete, the sonne of Amoz.

  • Dan 9:3
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    3And I turned my face vnto the Lord God, and sought by prayer and supplication, with fasting, sackcloth, and asshes.

  • 1 Kgs 21:27-28
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    27And it fortuned, that whe Ahab heard those wordes, he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth & wene bare foote.

    28And the worde of the Lorde came to Elia the Thesbyte, saying:

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    1When Mardocheus perceaued all that was done, he rent his clothes, and put on sackecloth with asshes, and went out into the middest of the citie, and cryed loude and lamentably,

    2And came before the kinges gate: but he might not enter within the kinges gate, because he had sackcloth on.

    3And in all prouinces, countries, and places, as farre as the kinges worde & commaundement extented, there was great lamentatio among the Iewes, fasting, weeping, and mourning, and many lay in sackeclothes and in asshes.

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    30And it came to passe, that when the king hearde the wordes of the woman, he rent his clothes, and went vp on the wall, and the people loked, and beholde he had a sackcloth vnder vpon his fleshe.

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    1In the twentie and fourth day of this moneth, came the children of Israel together againe, with fasting, and sackeclothes, and earth vpon them,

  • 2 Sam 13:31
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    31Then the king arose, & tare his garmentes, and lay along on the earth: and all his seruauntes stoode by with their clothes rent.

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    8Yea many a day Niniue was as a ponde full of water, yet now they flee, Stand ye, stande ye, and no man loketh backe.

  • 2 Chr 34:19
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    19And it fortuned, that when the king had heard the wordes of the lawe, he tare his clothes:

  • Jer 4:8
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    8Wherfore girde your selues about with sackcloth, mourne and weepe: for the fearefull wrath of the Lorde is not withdrawen from vs.

  • Joel 2:12-13
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    12But nowe saith ye Lord, turne you vnto me with all your heartes, with fasting, with weepyng, and with mournyng.

    13And rent your heartes and not your garmentes, & turne you vnto the Lorde your God, for he is gratious & mercifull, slowe to anger, and of great goodnesse, and he wyll repent him of the euyll.

  • 2 Kgs 22:11
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    11And it fortuned, that when the king had hearde the wordes of the booke of the lawe, he rent his clothes.

  • Ezra 9:5
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    5And about the euening sacrifice I arose vp from my heauinesse, and rent my clothes and my rayment, and fell vpon my knees, and spread out my handes vnto the Lorde my God,

  • Dan 5:6
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    6Then chaunged the king his countenaunce, & his thoughtes troubled hym, so that the ioyntes of his loynes were loosed, and his knees smote one against the other.

  • Luke 11:32
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    32The men of Niuiue shall rise in iudgement with this nation, and shall condempne them, for they repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, a greater then Ionas is here.

  • Job 42:6
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    6Wherefore I geue myne owne selfe the blame, and take repentaunce in the dust and asshes.

  • 2 Kgs 22:19
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    19Because thyne heart dyd melt, and because thou hast humbled thy selfe before me the Lorde, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabiters of the same, howe that they should be destroyed and accursed: and hast rent thy clothes and wept before me, of that also haue I hearde sayth the Lorde:

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    3And when I heard this saying, I rent my clothes and my garment, & pluckt of the heere of my head & of my beard, and sate mourning.

  • 2 Kgs 19:36
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    36And so Sennacherib king of Assyria auoyded and departed, and went againe and dwelt at Niniue.

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    20Then Iob stoode vp, and rent his clothes, & shaued his head, fell downe vpon the ground, worshipped,

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    37So Sennacherib the kyng of the Assyrians brake vp & dwelt at Niniue.

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    27Because thyne heart did melt, and thou diddest meeke thy selfe before God when thou heardest his wordes against this place, and against the inhabiters thereof, and humbledst thy selfe before me, and tarest thy clothes, and weepedst before me: that haue I heard also, sayth the Lorde.

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    5And Ionas went out of the citie, and sate him downe on the east side thereof, and there made him a boothe, and sate vnder it in the shadowe, till he might see what should be done in the citie.

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    13Yea he shall stretch out his hande ouer the north, and destroy Assur: As for Niniue he shall make it desolate, drye, and waste.

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    30And they shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shall crye bitterly, and shall cast dust vpon their heades, and wallowe in the asshes.

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    41The men of Niniue shall ryse in the iudgement, with this nation, and condemne it, because they repented at the preachyng of Ionas: and beholde, here is one greater then Ionas.

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    13Then they hasted, and toke euery man his garment, and put it vnder him on the toppe of the staires, and blewe with trumpettes, saying: Iehu is king.

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    38So the prophete went foorth, & wayted for the king by the way, and put him selfe out of knowledge with ashes whiche he layed vpon his face.

  • Jonah 4:1
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    1And this displeased Ionas greatly, and he was angrye within him selfe.