"And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes."
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And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colors that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me.
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he might be glorified.
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.
And he took a potsherd to scrape himself with; and he sat among the ashes.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself with it; and he sat down among the ashes.
He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.
And he taketh to him a potsherd to scrape himself with it, and he is sitting in the midst of the ashes.