" I'm sorry! Do I have to wear sackcloth and ashes" ?

" 我很抱歉！我需要悔改吗" ？

You promise to wear sackcloth and ashes for the rest of the month.

你答应在这个月剩下的日子里" 穿麻衣，抹灰" 。

The word " sackcloth" refers to a kind of clothing that feels rough on the skin.

" sackcloth" 一词是指一种在皮肤上感觉粗糙的衣服。

You can also use the phrase " sackcloth and ashes" in a sarcastic way.

你也可以讽刺地使用" sackcloth and ashes" (悲苦，懊悔)这个短语。

Wearing something made of sackcloth was a sign that a person was trying to punish himself.

穿着麻布做的衣服，表明一个人正在试图惩罚自己。

Mourn like a virgin in sackcloth grieving for the betrothed of her youth.

我的民哪，你当哀号，像处女束麻布，为幼年的丈夫哀号。

For example, if you are feeling really bad about something you did, you might say you are wearing sackcloth and ashes.

例如，如果你对你做的事情感觉很糟糕，你可能会说" you are wearing sackcloth and ashes" （你很懊悔）。

Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.

" 各人头上光秃，胡须剪短，手有，束麻布。

In the streets they wear sackcloth; on the roofs and in the public squares they all wail, prostrate with weeping.

他们在街市上都束麻布，在房顶上和宽阔处俱各哀号，眼泪汪汪。

So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.

因此，你们当束麻布，大声哀号，因为耶和华的烈怒没有向我们转消。

But he went only as far as the king's gate, because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.

到了朝门前停住脚步，因为穿麻衣的不可进朝门。

So I turned to the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and petition, in fasting, and in sackcloth and ashes.

我便禁食，披麻蒙灰，定意向主　神祈祷恳求。

They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved.

要用麻布束，被战兢所盖，各人脸上羞愧，头上光秃。

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

雅各便撕裂衣服，间围上麻布，为他儿子悲哀了多日。

But let people and animals be covered with sackcloth. Let everyone call urgently on God. Let them give up their evil ways and their violence.

人与牲畜都当披上麻布，人要切切求告　神。各人回头离开所行的恶道，丢弃手中的强暴。

Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

我民哪（" 民" 原文作" 民女" ），应当束麻布，滚在灰中；你要悲，如丧独生子痛痛哭号，因为灭命的要忽然临到我们。

The Ninevites believed God. A fast was proclaimed, and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on sackcloth.

尼尼微人信服　神，便宣告禁食，从最大的到至小的都穿麻衣（或作" 披上麻布" ）。

Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.

必有臭烂代替馨香，绳子代替带，光秃代替美发，麻衣系代替华服，烙代替美容。

When Jonah's warning reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, took off his royal robes, covered himself with sackcloth and sat down in the dust.

这信息传到尼尼微王的耳中，他就下了宝座，脱下朝服，披上麻布，坐在灰中。

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

当那日，主万军之耶和华叫人哭泣哀号，头上光秃，身披麻布。