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In Old Testament times why did people wear "Sackcloth"?
ANSWER: So people would know that they were in mourning.
Scripture talking about "Sackcloth"
Esther 4:3 ESV
And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Psalm 30:11 ESV
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,
Genesis 37:34 ESV
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Daniel 9:3 ESV
Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
Jeremiah 6:26 ESV
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Jonah 3:8 ESV
But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and let them call out mightily to God. Let everyone turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands.
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