Put on sackcloth, and beat your breasts, priests; wail, ministers of the altar; come, lie all night in sack-cloth, ministers of God; for cereal-offering and drink-offering are cut off from the house of your God.
Ruth 2:17
So she gleaned in the field until evening, then beat out what she had gleaned. It was about a bushel of barley.
Esther 4:1
When Mordecai learned all that had been done, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and strewed ashes on his head, and went out into the city and raised a loud and bitter cry of lamentation.
Esther 4:2
He went as far as the king’s gate, but no one could enter the gate clothed with sackcloth.
Esther 4:3
In every province, wherever the king’s command and decree went, there was great mourning, fasting, weeping, and wailing among the Jews. Many of them sat in sackcloth and ashes.
Psalms 18:42
I beat them like dust of the market-place, stamped them like mud of the streets.