TSK · Jonah 3:6

Esther Decides to Risk Everything in order to Help Her People Now when Mordecai became aware of all that had been done, he tore his garments and put on sackcloth and ashes. He went out into the city, crying out in a loud and bitter voice.

Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.

So now, you kings, do what is wise; you rulers of the earth, submit to correction!

The LORD told me,“Tell the king and the queen mother,‘Surrender your thrones, for your glorious crowns will be removed from your heads.

Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to implore him by prayer and requests, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! If the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Now the believer of humble means should take pride in his high position.