Jeremiah 48:37

World English Bible (2000)

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

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  • Gen 37:34 : 34 Jacob tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
  • Isa 15:2-3 : 2 They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. 3 In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.
  • Jer 41:5 : 5 that there came men from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Yahweh.
  • Jer 47:5 : 5 Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
  • Isa 20:2 : 2 at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet." He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
  • Jer 16:6 : 6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
  • Gen 37:29 : 29 Reuben returned to the pit; and saw that Joseph wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
  • Isa 37:1 : 1 It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh's house.
  • Lev 19:28 : 28 "'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am Yahweh.
  • 1 Kgs 18:28 : 28 They cried aloud, and cut themselves in their way with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
  • 1 Kgs 21:27 : 27 It happened, when Ahab heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
  • 2 Kgs 6:30 : 30 It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath on his flesh.
  • Isa 3:24 : 24 It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
  • Ezek 7:18 : 18 They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
  • Ezek 27:31 : 31 and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
  • Mic 1:16 : 16 Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!
  • Mark 5:5 : 5 Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
  • Rev 11:3 : 3 I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 15:1-3
    3 verses
    81%

    1The burden of Moab: for in a night, Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nothing.

    2They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.

    3In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

  • Jer 48:38-39
    2 verses
    80%

    38On all the housetops of Moab and in its streets there is lamentation every where; for I have broken Moab like a vessel in which none delights, says Yahweh.

    39How is it broken down! [how] do they wail! how has Moab turned the back with shame! so shall Moab become a derision and a terror to all who are around him.

  • Ezek 7:17-18
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    80%

    17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

    18They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

  • Jer 48:33-36
    4 verses
    76%

    33Gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the wine presses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

    34From the cry of Heshbon even to Elealeh, even to Jahaz have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even to Horonaim, to Eglath Shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim also shall become desolate.

    35Moreover I will cause to cease in Moab, says Yahweh, him who offers in the high place, and him who burns incense to his gods.

    36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

  • Isa 22:12
    76%

    12In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:

  • Isa 3:24
    75%

    24It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a wearing of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

  • Jer 48:24-25
    2 verses
    74%

    24and on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

    25The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 48:31
    74%

    31Therefore will I wail for Moab; yes, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir Heres shall they mourn.

  • Jer 48:15-17
    3 verses
    74%

    15Moab is laid waste, and they are gone up into his cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, says the King, whose name is Yahweh of Armies.

    16The calamity of Moab is near to come, and his affliction hurries fast.

    17All you who are around him, bemoan him, and all you who know his name; say, How is the strong staff broken, the beautiful rod!

  • Jer 47:5
    74%

    5Baldness is come on Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?

  • Mic 1:16
    74%

    16Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture; for they have gone into captivity from you!

  • Jer 48:1-4
    4 verses
    74%

    1Of Moab. Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Woe to Nebo! for it is laid waste; Kiriathaim is disappointed, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and broken down.

    2The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. You also, Madmen, shall be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue you.

    3The sound of a cry from Horonaim, desolation and great destruction!

    4Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

  • Jer 7:29
    73%

    29Cut off your hair, [Jerusalem], and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

  • Amos 8:10
    73%

    10I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

  • Isa 16:7
    73%

    7Therefore Moab will wail for Moab. Everyone will wail. You will mourn for the raisin cakes of Kir Hareseth, utterly stricken.

  • Jer 16:6
    73%

    6Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;

  • Ezek 27:31
    72%

    31and they shall make themselves bald for you, and clothe them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.

  • Ezek 5:1
    72%

    1You, son of man, take a sharp sword; You shall take it as a barber's razor to you, and shall cause it to pass on your head and on your beard: then take balances to weigh, and divide the hair.

  • Isa 7:20
    72%

    20In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

  • Lev 13:40-41
    2 verses
    72%

    40"If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

    41If his hair has fallen off from the front part of his head, he is forehead bald. He is clean.

  • Jer 48:8-9
    2 verses
    72%

    8The destroyer shall come on every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as Yahweh has spoken.

    9Give wings to Moab, that she may fly and get her away: and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.

  • Jer 48:20-21
    2 verses
    72%

    20Moab is disappointed; for it is broken down: wail and cry; tell it by the Arnon, that Moab is laid waste.

    21Judgment is come on the plain country, on Holon, and on Jahzah, and on Mephaath,

  • Jer 48:41-42
    2 verses
    71%

    41Kerioth is taken, and the strongholds are seized, and the heart of the mighty men of Moab at that day shall be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.

    42Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he has magnified himself against Yahweh.

  • Isa 15:8
    71%

    8For the cry has gone around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

  • Jer 48:45-46
    2 verses
    71%

    45Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.

    46Woe to you, O Moab! the people of Chemosh is undone; for your sons are taken away captive, and your daughters into captivity.

  • Lev 19:27
    71%

    27"'You shall not cut the hair on the sides of your heads, neither shall you clip off the edge of your beard.

  • Isa 16:11
    71%

    11Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

  • Joel 1:8
    70%

    8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

  • Lev 21:5
    70%

    5"'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

  • Mic 1:8
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    8For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, and moan like the daughters of owls.

  • Jer 49:32
    70%

    32Their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their livestock a spoil: and I will scatter to all winds those who have the corners [of their hair] cut off; and I will bring their calamity from every side of them, says Yahweh.

  • Jer 49:3
    70%

    3Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, clothe yourself in sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malcam shall go into captivity, his priests and his princes together.