Bible Verses About Ashes
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for ashes, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 466 votes, led by Job 42:6. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Ashes
Job 42:663 votes
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Isaiah 61:1-1148 votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Numbers 19:1745 votes
And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
Daniel 9:343 votes
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
Job 2:830 votes
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
2 Samuel 13:1926 votes
And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.
Esther 4:326 votes
And in every province, whithersoever 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.
Isaiah 61:326 votes
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Malachi 4:326 votes
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the Lord of hosts.
Esther 4:124 votes
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Jonah 3:618 votes
For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
Matthew 11:2118 votes
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
Luke 10:1317 votes
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
Hebrews 9:1317 votes
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
Numbers 19:1016 votes
And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.
Ecclesiastes 3:2012 votes
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
1 Peter 5:1-1411 votes
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:
What does the Bible say about ashes?
Readers most often cite Job 42:6 on the subject of ashes. Across 466 votes, 17 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Isaiah 61:1-11, Numbers 19:17, Daniel 9:3. This page lists all 17 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.