But when the king came in to see the wedding guests, he saw a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

Jesus knew at once that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?”

The king then said to Haman, “Go quickly! Take the clothing and the horse, just as you have described, and do as you just indicated to Mordecai the Jew who sits at the king’s gate. Don’t neglect ¹  a single thing of all that you have said.”

He loosens ¹  the bonds ²  of kings and binds a loincloth ³  around their waist.

So I ¹  waste away like something rotten, ²  like a garment eaten by moths.

when I made ¹  the storm clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, ² 

The watery deep covered it ¹  like a garment; the waters reached ²  above the mountains. ³ 

A wicked person receives a bribe secretly ¹  to pervert ²  the ways of justice.

A gift given ¹  in secret subdues ²  anger, and a bribe given secretly ³  subdues ⁴  strong wrath. ⁵ 

Justice will be like a belt around his waist, integrity will be like a belt around his hips. ¹ 

I can clothe the sky in darkness; I can cover it with sackcloth.”

They will perish, but you continue. And they will all grow old like a garment,

Binding his foal to the vine, and his colt to the choicest vine, he will wash ¹  his garments in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes.

You are to make pomegranates ¹  of blue, purple, and scarlet all around its hem ²  and bells of gold between them all around.

When David reached the summit, where he used to worship God, Hushai the Arkite met him with his clothes torn and dirt on his head.

At that time, when Jeroboam had left Jerusalem, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met him on the road; the two of them were alone in the open country. Ahijah ¹  was wearing a brand new robe,

When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his robe and went out and stood at the entrance to the cave. All of a sudden ¹  a voice asked him, “Why are you here, Elijah?”

While Elisha was watching, he was crying out, “My father, my father! The chariot and horsemen of Israel!” ¹  Then he could no longer see him. He grabbed his clothes and tore them in two.

When the king heard what the woman said, he tore his clothes. As he was passing by on the wall, the people could see he was wearing sackcloth under his clothes. ¹ 

Each of them quickly took off his cloak and they spread them out at Jehu’s ¹  feet on the steps. ²  The trumpet was blown ³  and they shouted, “Jehu is ⁴  king!”