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	Definition of sackcloth - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		1 : a coarse cloth of goat or camel's hair or of flax, hemp, or cotton 2 : a garment of sackcloth worn as a sign of mourning or penitence
		Learn more about "sackcloth" and related topics at Britannica.com
		See a map of "sackcloth" in the Visual Thesaurus
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	Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth
		They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
		And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
		They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
	www.bible.cc /ezekiel/7-18.htm (231 words)

	SACK, SACKCLOTH - ATS Bible Dictionary on StudyLight.org
		Sackcloth is a very coarse stuff, often of hair, Revelation 6:12.
		The prophets were often clothed in sackcloth, and generally in coarse clothing, Matthew 11:21.
		In time of joy, or on hearing good news, those who were clad in sackcloth cast it from them, and resumed their usual clothing, Psalms 30:11.
	www.studylight.org /dic/ats/view.cgi?number=T1785 (193 words)

	Sackcloth
		Easton's Bible Dictionary defines sackcloth as "...a cloth made of fl goats' hair, coarse, rough, and thick, used for sacks, and also worn by mourners (Gen. 37:34; 42:25; 2 Sam.
		The wearing of sackcloth, a cheap, common cloth, uncomfortable to be worn next to the skin, was a symbol of self-humbling.
		The wearing of sackcloth was also associated with national repentace (Jonah 3:8, Jer.
	doweknow.com /html-files/sackcloth.htm (402 words)

	The Bible - Listings of the word SACKCLOTH in the King James Version (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
		Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, [and] his priests and his princes together.
		But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that [is] in their hands.
	www.allstarz.org /bible/word_sackcloth.htm (1403 words)

	Sackcloth and Ashes
		The Greek word for sackcloth is sakkos and refers to a warm, woven material made from either goat or camel hair.
		Sackcloth was also made into a loose-fitting garment or loincloth, worn by an individual who was in mourning or expressing grief or penitence (cf Mat 11:21; Lk 10:13).
		Often associated with the wearing of sackcloth is the act of sitting on an ash pile.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biblicalstudies/15720 (645 words)

	Sackcloth
		10 And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
		Isaiah 36:22 Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
		Jeremiah 49:3 Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
	www.topical-bible-studies.org /42-0021.htm (4249 words)

	SERVANT'S HEART: INDIE CD REVIEWS - Sackcloth 2 Joy : Sackcloth 2 Joy
		Sackcloth 2 Joy is a music ministry based on Psalm 30:11-12 whose vision is to encourage us to look to Christ through both the trials and the blessings in our lives.
		Sackcloth 2 Joy's ministry is touched by the real life issues and struggles through which they have passed.
		Sackcloth 2 Joy's songs and testimonies connect with people where they live, ultimately showing that Christ came to bring joy through any circumstances.
	www.servantsheart.net /indiecd13.htm (122 words)

	www.myspace.com/sackclothfashion
		Sackcloth Fashion desires to work with people who not only excel in their music, but also serve God with their everyday lifestyle.
		With over 70 years of professional music performance and writing experience combined, Sackcloth Fashion is the creative driving force behind Syntax Records.
		One of most unique things about Sackcloth Fashion is the ability to somehow match intriguing pop melodies, melancholy vocals, spitfire poetic delivery, all over the top of somber, folk driven songs.
	www.myspace.com /sackclothfashion (512 words)

	GospelFlava.com - Reviews - Sackcloth Fashion
		inspired by Old Testament references in which ashes and sackcloth were worn by those in mourning, to outwardly demonstrate to God and to man their inward state.
		Sackcloth Fashion takes this expression of humility and applies it to the condition of their collective hearts (“Rend your heart, not your garmentsJoel 2:12,13), declaring themselves to be in mourning for the lost (i.e.
		Although Sackcloth Fashion members Mista Tru, Sir Rocdomz and BassSickLee are evident through much of the album, guest artists are rife, including Grapetree artist E-Roc on “Rising Sons”, and Dirt on “Subconsciously” and “It’s Just Me”.
	www.gospelflava.com /reviews/sackfash.html (384 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Clothed In Sackcloth
		Although the modern-day idea of "wearing sackcloth" is often that of someone dressed in a burlap grain bag with head and arm holes cut in it, during Bible History its appearance was quite different.
		Sackcloth was most often made of coarse, fl goat's hair.
		Also, sackcloth was, and will be (in some contemporary form), in the case of the two witnesses, worn by some Prophets.
	www.keyway.ca /htm2003/20031105.htm (484 words)

	Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A: Sackcloth is simply the type of material from which a sack would be
		Rough and uncomfortable, it was the type of garment that a person in mourning or seeking to repent would wear.
		You'll find references to "sackcloth" being worn by Jacob (Genesis 37:34), and by the Jews of Persia (Esther 4:1-3), among others.
	www.jewish.com /askarabbi/askarabbi/askr4486.htm (55 words)

	Re: Sackcloth and Ashes Cryonics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		X-Message-Number: 10443 Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:46:33 +0100 From: (John de Rivaz) Subject: Re: Sackcloth and Ashes Cryonics There has been some recent suggestion that people signed up for cryonics should give up 90% of the luxury in their lives in order to support the movement financially.
		Somehow the leader can persuade his flock that they should live in sackcloth and ashes and give him everything (sometimes a proportion of everything) they own.
		Therefore to live in a hovel in sackcloth and ashes in order to promote cryonics, by whatever method, could be throwing the one and only life you'll ever get in pursuit of an impossible dream.
	www.cryonet.org /cgi-bin/dsp.cgi?msg=10443 (641 words)

	Coat Closet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sackcloth was made of fl goats' hair, coarse, rough, and thick.
		Jacob wore sackcloth when he was told that his favorite son, Joseph, had been devoured by wild animals.
		A mantle was a large over-garment and the most famous one is the one worn by Elijah.
	www.virtualchurch.org /closet.htm (1136 words)

	DogfightAtBankstown: in sackcloth and ashes Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Women teachers at a school in the Indian city of Bhubaneswar have been told to wear aprons so that senior male students are not distracted by their bodies, Reuters reports.
		The inside of the man-made cave that housed the toilet is decorated like a grotto, with canes hanging on the ceiling, stalactite-like water faucets over the basin and huge stones inlaid in the walls.
		The U.N. Security Council, already under fire for its inaction over the crisis, has passed a resolution to allow war crimes in Dafur to be tried in the International Criminal Court, days after also voting to impose travel bans and international assets freezes on offenders.
	dogfightatbankstown.typepad.com /blog/in_sackcloth_and_ashes/index.html (7378 words)

	Sackcloth and Ashes :: JustChristians.com
		King Ahab, stirred by Jezebel, was an evil man. But when Elijah told him the dogs would eat Jezebel, he "rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly." And God said, "because he humbleth himself before me" judgment upon his house will be postponed.
		When Mordicai wished to mourn the plight of the Jews, he "put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a bitter cry." (Esth.
		But when we see the casual way in which repentance is treated a sort of academic pause between faith and baptism there is little resemblance to the spirit of "sackcloth and ashes." The substance should far surpass the shadow-- must do so if it is real.
	www.justchristians.com /abundantLife/101998/3.html (631 words)

	Court Life in China
		In the first sackcloth without hem or border; in the second with hem or border; in the third, fourth and fifth, pieces of sackcloth on parts of the dress.
		As these two ladies were married daughters, and had left this home, their sackcloth was not so coarse as that of the daughters-in-law and granddaughters who dwelt in the palace.
		There was a heavy yellow curtain over the door that led into the sacrificial hall, and when the servants from without announced a visitor, this curtain was drawn aside, and as the guest and a flood of light entered, the mourners began their wailing which they continued until he had departed.
	www.romanization.com /books/courtlifeinchina/chap18.html (2668 words)

	Culture news
		For the first three days, the son, clad in sackcloth of coarse white hemp, fasted, and leaped, and wailed.
		After the burial, for which there were minute prescriptions, the son had to wear the mourning sackcloth for twenty-seven months, emaciating his body with scanty food, and living in a rude hut erected for the purpose near the grave.
		In the "Analects", Confucius is said to have condemned with indignation the suggestion of a disciple that the period of the mourning rites might well be shortened to one year.
	kfz.freehostingguru.com /article02.php (5143 words)

	Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail
		Gird yourselves with sackcloth, and lament, ye priests; wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meal-offering and the drink-offering are withholden from the house of your God.
		Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat-offering and the drink-offering is withheld from the house of your God.
		Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests, wail, ye ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God; for the meal-offering and the drink-offering is withholden from the house of your God.
	bible.cc /joel/1-13.htm (328 words)

	Sackcloth clothing
		So it’s official, Jason Bolton (Man of Steel and Mud and Steel) and Joel Klampert of CECWorship have started a new T-Shirt company.
		These shirts were designed with worship in mind.
		You removed my sackcloth and turned it into joy
	sackcloth.wordpress.com (361 words)

	Personal info for aes
		I have a warehouse of sackcloth here in Egypt which people are trying to take from me, and I need help in getting the sackcloth to England where it would be safe.
		We can avoid the tax and save my sackcloth if you could accept a sackcloth transfer from me and provide temporary storage until I move it on.
		Then they can send portions of sackcloth to 10 of their closest friends, and eventually everyone in the world will be sackcloth enriched.
	www.advogato.org /person/aes (619 words)

	ws980219 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		For instance, in the Book of Esther, Mordecai put on sackcloth and ashes when he heard of the decree of King Ahasuerus (or Xerxes, 485-464 BC) of Persia to kill all of the Jewish people in the Persian Empire (Est 4:1).
		Job (whose story was written between 7th and 5th centuries BC) repented in sackcloth and ashes (lob 42:6).
		In the 5th century BC, after Jonha's preaching of conversion and repentance, the town of Ninevah proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, and the king covered himself with sackcloth and ashes (Jonah 3:5-6).
	www.catholicherald.com /saunders/98ws/ws980219.htm (579 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hairshirt
		The sackcloth, for instance, so often mentioned in Holy Scripture as a
		Scriptural use of the word in its Latin form occurs in the Vulgate version of Psalm 34:13, "Ego autem, cum mihi molesti essent, induebar cilicio." This is translated hair-cloth in the Douay Bible, and sackcloth in the Anglican Authorized Version and the Book of Common Prayer.
		During the early ages of Christianity the use of hair-cloth, as a means of bodily mortification and as an aid to the wearer in resisting temptations of the flesh, became very common, not only amongst the ascetics and those who aspired to the
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07113b.htm (490 words)

	Points Of Friction - "Sackcloth And Ashes" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sackcloth And Ashes was originally released in 1984 and reissued on CD by Anomolous Records in 2001.
		The 15 minute "Sackcloth And Ashes" is one of the more avant-garde works on the CD, beginning with a banquet of sounds that seem to be the backing track for a chorus of abused dogs in a kennel.
		But soon the K-9 cries morph into a sort of chamber noise ensemble, which quickly transitions to a ride across the harsher bands of the shortwave radio dial, later exploring the colder, unexplored regions of space, and playing around in Fripp/Eno territory again.
	www.aural-innovations.com /2004/march/kryman01.html (505 words)

	Apocalypse Revealed (Whitehead) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Clothed in sackcloth, signifies mourning in the meantime on account of the non-reception of truth.
		By "clothed in sackcloth" is signified mourning on account of the devastation of truth in the church; for "garments" signify truths (n.
		166, 212, 328, 378, 379); therefore "to be clothed in sackcloth," which is not a garment, signifies mourning because there is no truth, and where there is no truth there is no church.
	www.theheavenlydoctrines.org /static/d10964/492.htm (261 words)

	SACKCLOTH FASHION, 'THE LONE FLOWER' :: RELEVANT magazine :: GOD.LIFE.PROGRESSIVE CULTURE. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The creative vocals of Sackcloth Fashion positively add the perfect ingredient to the mixture to concoct the perfect flavor that easily satisfies the most resistant fans hunger.
		Sackcloth Fashion has an incredible song writing talent, and an equally incredible delivery.
		Sackcloth Fashion has a great group dynamic and all of the artists, each having their different style, and flavor combine together as one.
	www.relevantmagazine.com /modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1770&mode=&order=0 (1424 words)

	Amazon.ca: Music: Sackcloth-N-Ashes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Driven by off-kilter fiddles, a bizarre sense of humor, and punk-inflected country-rock, 16 Horsepower's second album, Sackcloth 'n' Ashes, is a weirdly captivating listen.
		"Sackcloth and Ashes" contains the song "Black Soul Choir," which is the one thing even resembling a hit that the group has had.
		"Sackcloth 'n Ashes" is their first full-length album and one worthy of any music lover's collection, as are their other albums.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002G47 (918 words)

	ash wednesday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Job (whose story was written between 7th and 5th centuries B.C.) repented in sackcloth and ashes (Jb 42:6).
		In the 5th century B.C., after Jonah's preaching of conversion and repentance, the town of Nineveh proclaimed a fast and put on sackcloth, and the king covered himself with sackcloth and sat in the ashes (Jon 3:5-6).
		In the Middle Ages (at least by the time of the 8th century), those who were about to die were laid on the ground on top of sackcloth sprinkled with ashes.
	www.catholicherald.com /saunders/05ws/ws050210.htm (632 words)

	Psalm 69:11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became
		And I made sackcloth my garment: then I became a proverb to them.
		I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
		I made sackcloth also my garment, and I became a byword unto them.
	www.bible.cc /psalms/69-11.htm (132 words)

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