I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin and have laid my strength in the dust.
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
let the enemy pursue my soul and overtake it, and let him trample my life to the ground and lay my glory in the dust. Selah
In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.’”
And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The Lord will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the horn of his anointed.”
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