Girdles: Made of Sackcloth
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Isaiah 3:24
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
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Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust on their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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Letter cxxx. To Demetrias.
... confined and mortified their loins with girdles of skin ... the violence of sensual passion
he made himself the ... troubled me my clothing was sackcloth." [3703] Eve ...
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Letter xxii. To Eustochium.
... Sackcloth disfigured my unshapely limbs and my skin from long ... allow the father's
house to be made a den of ... Their dress is sombre, their girdles are of sackcloth ...
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