Sentences with word «sackcloth»

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 went as far as the front of the king's gate, for no one might enter the king's gate clothed with sackcloth.

I looked when He broke the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the whole moon became like blood; and the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind.

It was not for sackcloth and ashes, whips, the sacrifice of a before - dinner martini and empty stomachs that we are here.

6:12 Then I looked when the Lamb opened the sixth seal, and a huge earthquake took place; the sun became as black as sackcloth made of hair, and the full moon became blood red; 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to the earth like a fig tree dropping its unripe figs when shaken by a fierce wind.

The ashes imposed upon the forehead is an old semitic tradition where someone in mourning wears sackcloth, pours ashes on himself, dishevels his hair, sits in ashes and goes without water.

Apparently it takes sackcloth and ashes before we are allowed to be practical.

TP, outside the bible, about 93 million miles away, is that «blacklight hair on the sun»... the sun became black like sackcloth of hair.

But just as important was the physicality and materiality of the paintings, resulting from his preference for using sackcloth and raw jute with a very open weave for his supports and raw pigment, soil and ash as his medium.

her pride in her «great sense of modesty,» her insistence that we all don sackcloth, preferably after shaving our heads (like a novice, she marked her arrival in Paris by bobbing her hair) remind me of no one as much as Pope Francis.

Is it to bow down his head like a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him?

and «It's a cesspool of despair, we going to need way more sackcloth and ashes!»

In the Middle Ages (at least by the time of the eighth century), those who were about to die were laid on the ground on top of sackcloth sprinkled with ashes.

A black garment made of goats hair called sackcloth was worn and then torn form top to bottom signifying intense, emotional grief.

In the wake of tragedy or in the anticipation of judgment, our ancestors traded their finer clothes for coarse, colorless sackcloth and smeared their faces with the ashes of burned - up things.

Its most frightening moment is an unbroken shot lasting almost one minute in which Tyler's character smokes a cigarette and gets herself a glass of water, unaware that a man in a crude sackcloth mask is watching her from the far side of the screen.

More's the shame that it's all tattered sackcloth for a performance by veteran character actress Melissa Leo so ferocious and vulnerable that it ranks instantly among the best of the year.

Both feature sackcloth - and - zipper sporting protagonists.

Mahama's large - scale public installations, such as the one currently on view at the Venice Biennale, explore how capital and labour manifest themselves through industrial materials such as worn - out sackcloth.

Crane was also at 1:54, where it launched emerging artist Ibrahim Mahama's «Out of Bounds», a limited edition of small photography books handmade and wrapped in burlap sackcloth straight from Ghana.

Using a rough - textured sackcloth, he created a friezelike composition whose flat but monumental forms and exotic color create visual equivalents of the peace and harmony he had admired among the Polynesian natives.

Washed denim and printed sackcloth fabrics have customised the occasional chair taking this garden retreat back to the «Swinging Sixties».

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.

But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.

Joel 2:30,31 «And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and a great earthquake occurred; and the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair, and the entire moon became as blood, and the stars of heaven fell to the earth as when a fig tree shaken by a high wind drops its unripe figs.»

For the locally ambitious, the loss of an Ulster congressional seat would be cause for sackcloth and ashes.

[17] St. Maximus the Confessor, commenting on the repentance of the people of Nineveh in the book of Jonah, says that «sackcloth is the grief of repentance and ashes represent humility».

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.

Nothing less than sackcloth and ashes, nothing less than fasting and prayer.

Engaging with God, remaining in the conversation until we get an answer, is the only way to turn our own mourning and the mourning in the world around us into dancing, and to transform the sackcloth we wear into joy.

The readings for Ash Wednesday leave us with conflicting admonitions: to put on sackcloth and ashes, and to wash our faces and comb our hair.

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.

What we shouldn't do is cover ourselves with the sackcloth and ashes of guilt.

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.

Clothed in sackcloth.

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).

«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.

In the New Testament, Jesus refers to the use of sackcloth and ashes as signs of repentance: «Woe to you, Chorazin!