Genesis 27:34

Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground. They keep silence. They have cast up dust on their heads. They have clothed themselves with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

and will cause their voice to be heard over you, and will cry bitterly. They will cast up dust on their heads. They will wallow in the ashes.

Our livestock also shall go with us. Not a hoof shall be left behind, for of it we must take to serve Yahweh our God; and we don’t know with what we must serve Yahweh, until we come there.”

Now in the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, with sackcloth, and dirt on them.

According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity, and sow trouble, reap the same.

The unfaithful will be repaid for his own ways; likewise a good man will be rewarded for his ways.

Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before Yahweh’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.

The people to whom they prophesy will be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword. They will have no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters, for I will pour their wickedness on them.

I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”

Esau said to his father, “Do you have just one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

Then David took hold on his clothes, and tore them; and all the men who were with him did likewise.

Tamar put ashes on her head, and tore her garment of various colors that was on her; and she laid her hand on her head, and went her way, crying aloud as she went.

Then Job arose, and tore his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down on the ground, and worshiped.

Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.

But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”

By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.

He who sows wickedness reaps trouble, and the rod of his fury will be destroyed.

Men will call them rejected silver, because Yahweh has rejected them.”

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

Then I will tell them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you who work iniquity.’

Simon answered, “Pray for me to the Lord, that none of the things which you have spoken happen to me.”

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.

Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

All these are the twelve tribes of Israel, and this is what their father spoke to them, and blessed them. He blessed everyone according to his own blessing.

Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to Yahweh your God in the wilderness, only you shall not go very far away. Pray for me.”

Pray to Yahweh; for there has been enough of mighty thunderings and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer.”

Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old. We will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”

He took the calf which they had made, and burned it with fire, ground it to powder, and scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.

When the people heard this evil news, they mourned; and no one put on his jewelry.

The priest shall take holy water in an earthen vessel; and the priest shall take some of the dust that is on the floor of the tabernacle and put it into the water.

and this water that brings a curse will go into your bowels, and make your body swell, and your thigh fall away.” The woman shall say, “Amen, Amen.”

Since the Amalekite and the Canaanite dwell in the valley, tomorrow turn and go into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea.”

Moses told these words to all the children of Israel, and the people mourned greatly.

The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

Then you answered and said to me, “We have sinned against Yahweh. We will go up and fight, according to all that Yahweh our God commanded us.” Every man of you put on his weapons of war, and presumed to go up into the hill country.

When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice and wept.

Then the messengers came to Gibeah of Saul, and spoke these words in the ears of the people, then all the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

Samuel said to Saul, “You have done foolishly. You have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you; for now Yahweh would have established your kingdom on Israel forever.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Then David and the people who were with him lifted up their voice and wept until they had no more power to weep.

As soon as he had finished speaking, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept. The king also and all his servants wept bitterly.

then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way on his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

While he was still talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him. Then he said, “Behold, this evil is from Yahweh. Why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?”

then hear from heaven, act, and judge your servants, bringing retribution to the wicked, to bring his way on his own head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Now when Mordecai found out all that was done, Mordecai tore his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the middle of the city, and wailed loudly and bitterly.

In every province, wherever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, and he sat among the ashes.

When they lifted up their eyes from a distance, and didn’t recognize him, they raised their voices, and wept; and they each tore his robe, and sprinkled dust on their heads toward the sky.

You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me.

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

He has brought on them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. Yahweh, our God, will cut them off.

The lips of the righteous feed many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The integrity of the upright shall guide them, but the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

A good man shall obtain favor from Yahweh, but he will condemn a man of wicked plans.

The foolishness of man subverts his way; his heart rages against Yahweh.

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?

Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backsliding will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing, that you have forsaken Yahweh your God, and that my fear is not in you,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.

“Your way and your doings have brought these things to you. This is your wickedness; for it is bitter, for it reaches to your heart.”

Their appearance is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.

You have plowed wickedness. You have reaped iniquity. You have eaten the fruit of lies, for you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

Yet the land will be desolate because of those who dwell therein, for the fruit of their doings.

But when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of it, they tore their clothes, and sprang into the multitude, crying out,

They all wept freely, and fell on Paul’s neck and kissed him,

What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!’ For she is made desolate in one hour.