Ezekiel 27:31

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

they will tear out their hair because of you and put on sackcloth, and they will weep bitterly over you with intense mourning.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 16:9 : 9 So I weep along with Jazer over the vines of Sibmah. I will saturate you with my tears, Heshbon and Elealeh, for the conquering invaders shout triumphantly over your fruit and crops.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 At that time the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
  • Ezek 7:18 : 18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
  • Isa 15:2 : 2 They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.
  • Isa 22:4 : 4 So I say:“Don’t look at me! I am weeping bitterly. Don’t try to console me concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.”
  • Lev 21:5 : 5 Priests must not have a bald spot shaved on their head, they must not shave the corner of their beard, and they must not cut slashes in their body.
  • Deut 14:1 : 1 The Holy and the Profane You are children of the LORD your God. Do not cut yourselves or shave your forehead bald for the sake of the dead.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.
  • Jer 47:5 : 5 The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning. The people of Ashkelon will be struck dumb. How long will you gash yourselves to show your sorrow, you who remain of Philistia’s power?
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.
  • Mic 1:8 : 8 For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; shave your foreheads as bald as an eagle, for they are taken from you into exile.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

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    32As they wail they will lament over you, chanting:“Who was like Tyre, like a tower in the midst of the sea?”

    33When your products went out from the seas, you satisfied many peoples; with the abundance of your wealth and merchandise you enriched the kings of the earth.

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    15“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

    16All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.

    17They will sing this lament over you:“‘How you have perished– you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!

    18Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’

  • 18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.

  • 12At that time the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.

  • Ezek 27:2-3
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    2“You, son of man, sing a lament for Tyre.

    3Say to Tyre, who sits at the entrance of the sea, merchant to the peoples on many coasts,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘O Tyre, you have said,“I am perfectly beautiful.”

  • Isa 15:2-3
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    2They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.

    3In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

  • 10I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.

  • 16Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; shave your foreheads as bald as an eagle, for they are taken from you into exile.

  • Isa 3:24-26
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    24A putrid stench will replace the smell of spices, a rope will replace a belt, baldness will replace braided locks of hair, a sackcloth garment will replace a fine robe, and a prisoner’s brand will replace beauty.

    25Your men will fall by the sword, your strong men will die in battle.

    26Her gates will mourn and lament; deprived of her people, she will sit on the ground.

  • Rev 18:18-19
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    18and began to shout when they saw the smoke from the fire that burned her up,“Who is like the great city?”

    19And they threw dust on their heads and were shouting with weeping and mourning,“Woe, Woe, O great city– in which all those who had ships on the sea got rich from her wealth– because in a single hour she has been destroyed!”

  • 18I said,“Indeed, let them come quickly and sing a song of mourning for us. Let them wail loudly until tears stream from our own eyes and our eyelids overflow with water.

  • 7Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say,‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”

  • Isa 23:5-6
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    5When the news reaches Egypt, they will be shaken by what has happened to Tyre.

    6Travel to Tarshish! Wail, you residents of the coast!

  • 8For this reason I will mourn and wail; I will walk around barefoot and without my outer garments. I will howl like a wild dog, and screech like an owl.

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    39I will give you into their hands and they will destroy your chambers and tear down your pavilions. They will strip you of your clothing and take your beautiful jewelry and leave you naked and bare.

    40They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

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    35All the inhabitants of the coastlands are shocked at you, and their kings are horribly afraid– their faces are troubled.

    36The traders among the peoples hiss at you; you have become a horror, and will be no more.’”

  • 4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

  • 10י(Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground.

  • 12Mourn over the field, over the delightful fields and the fruitful vine!

  • 26So I said,“Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us.”

  • 37For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.

  • 6Rich and poor alike will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned. People will not cut their bodies or shave off their hair to show their grief for them.

  • 1The Lord Will Judge Tyre This is an oracle about Tyre: Wail, you large ships, for the port is too devastated to enter! From the land of Cyprus this news is announced to them.

  • 15The merchants who sold these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep and mourn,

  • 26They will strip your clothes off you and take away your beautiful jewelry.

  • 12They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.

  • 29So, mourn, you people of this nation. Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the hilltops. For the LORD has decided to reject and forsake this generation that has provoked his wrath!’”

  • 8A Call to Lament Wail like a young virgin clothed in sackcloth, lamenting the death of her husband-to-be.

  • 2“The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.

  • 34Wail and cry out in anguish, you rulers! Roll in the dust, you who shepherd flocks of people! The time for you to be slaughtered has come. You will lie scattered and fallen like broken pieces of fine pottery.

  • 23Your turbans will be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you will not mourn or weep, but you will rot for your iniquities and groan among yourselves.

  • 30And you, Zion, city doomed to destruction, you accomplish nothing by wearing a beautiful dress, decking yourself out in jewels of gold, and putting on eye shadow! You are making yourself beautiful for nothing. Your lovers spurn you. They want to kill you.

  • 7Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly.

  • 27Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains, your ship’s carpenters, your merchants, and all your fighting men within you, along with all your crew who are in you, will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

  • 2“Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem,‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’

  • 14Wail, you large ships, for your fortress is destroyed!

  • 14Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.