3 And I proceeded to set my face+ to Jehovah* the [true] God,* in order to seek [him] with prayer+ and with entreaties, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.+

6 When the word reached the king of Ninʹe·veh,+ then he rose up from his throne and put off his official garment from himself and covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the ashes.+

13 “Woe to you, Cho·raʹzin!+ Woe to you, Beth·saʹi·da!+ because if the powerful works that have taken place in YOU had taken place in Tyre and Siʹdon, they would long ago have repented sitting in sackcloth and ashes.+