Sentences with phrase «in sackcloth»

for if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes» (Matt.

The evil people of the MEE believe in God and exhibit a repentance so robust that a fast is proclaimed and all are clothed in sackcloth from king to cattle.

For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes» (Mt 11:21, Lk 10:13).

Many lay in sackcloth and ashes, just like Mordecai.

[2] She is very careful to not go before the king in sackcloth and ashes.

She wished to fast even on Easter, and she slept in sackcloth in a box she had constructed in which she could neither stretch out nor turn over.

He is there barbecuing in sackcloth, making merry with his wife, «dancing and singing old Sinatra songs and the Salve Regina, cutting the fool like David before the ark or like Walter Huston doing a jig when he struck it rich in the Sierra Madre»

In theology we need not weep and wail or do penance in sackcloth and ashes, but anguish would well behoove us.

For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Eusebius (260 - 340), the famous early Church historian, recounted in his The History of the Church how an apostate named Natalis came to Pope Zephyrinus clothed in sackcloth and ashes begging forgiveness.

For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented in sackcloth and ashes long ago!

And in every province where the king's command and decree arrived, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

6The word reached the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his throne, laid his robe down, covered himself in sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

8Let man and cattle cover themselves in sackcloth and cry out to God with might, every man turning from his evil ways and from the violence which is in his hands.

Clothed in sackcloth.

«Just look at Job — once he saw God f2f, he only wanted to be excused for daring to ask question... wanted to cover himself in sackcloth and ashes and run.

Am I to suppose that you go out in sackcloth and wash people's feet without a televised spectacle?

For if the miracles had occurred in Tyre and Sidon which occurred in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Esther does not know why Mordecai is in sackcloth and ashes!

Previously, after Haman's edict, Mordecai was in sackcloth and ashes, now he is dressed like a king.

For anyone who isn't sick of the debate over Mel Gibson, anti-Semitism, and whether people who liked The Passion should repent in sackcloth and ashes now that its creator's sheets - to - the - wind sentiments about the Jews have been revealed, I'd recommend dipping into Mark....