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Job 2:12

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And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

Job’s Three Friends

Cross References

Revelation 18:19

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And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

Lament over Babylon

Joshua 7:6

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¶ And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

The Defeat at Ai

1 Samuel 4:12

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¶ And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

The Death of Eli

Nehemiah 9:1

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Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them.

The People Confess Their Sins

The People Confess Their Sin

Job 1:20

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Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

Job Loses His Children and Possessions

Lamentations 2:10

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The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

God’s Anger over Jerusalem

Ezekiel 27:30