The word in Scripture

Sackcloth in the Bible

The word sackcloth appears 46 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Sackcloth is the rough garment of grief and repentance. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What sackcloth means in the Bible

Sackcloth is the rough garment of grief and repentance.

Where the word sackcloth appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word sackcloth appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.”Genesis 37:34

“Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;”Psalms 30:11

“I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.”Psalms 69:11

“And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:”Isaiah 22:12

“Tremble, ye women that are at ease; be troubled, ye careless ones: strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.”Isaiah 32:11

“Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.”Matthew 11:21

“Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.”Luke 10:13

“And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.”Revelation 11:3