What is the meaning of sackcloth and ashes?

What is the meaning of sackcloth and ashes? How are sackcloth and ashes symbolic of repentance?

Sackcloth and ashes: Rituals of lamentation (Psalm 30)

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What does it mean to be contrite? What is contrition?

Biblical Evidence for Penitential Mortification (E.g., Sackcloth

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