TSK · Genesis 37:34

Later Reuben returned to the cistern to find that Joseph was not in it! He tore his clothes,

Joshua tore his clothes; he and the leaders of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening and threw dirt on their heads.

David then grabbed his own clothes and tore them, as did all the men who were with him.

His advisers said to him,“Look, we have heard that the kings of the Israelite dynasty are kind. Allow us to put sackcloth around our waists and ropes on our heads and surrender to the king of Israel. Maybe he will spare our lives.”

When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the LORD’s temple.

David looked up and saw the LORD’s angel standing between the earth and sky with his sword drawn and in his hand, stretched out over Jerusalem. David and the leaders, covered with sackcloth, threw themselves down with their faces to the ground.

The People Acknowledge Their Sin before God On the twenty-fourth day of this same month the Israelites assembled; they were fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with dust.

Then Job got up and tore his robe. He shaved his head, and then he threw himself down with his face to the ground.

I wear sackcloth and they ridicule me.

Tremble, you complacent ones! Shake with fear, you carefree ones! Strip off your clothes and expose yourselves– put sackcloth on your waist!

Neither he nor any of his attendants showed any alarm when they heard all that had been read. Nor did they tear their clothes to show any grief or sorrow.

The people of Nineveh believed in God, and they declared a fast and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them.

Then the high priest tore his clothes and declared,“He has blasphemed! Why do we still need witnesses? Now you have heard the blasphemy!

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.”