They answered him, “A hairy man, with a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
Matthew 3:4 - New Revised Standard Version Now John wore clothing of camel's hair with a leather belt around his waist, and his food was locusts and wild honey. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition This same John's garments were made of camel's hair, and he wore a leather girdle about his waist; and his food was locusts and wild honey. [Lev. 11:22; II Kings 1:8; Zech. 13:4.] American Standard Version (1901) Now John himself had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his food was locusts and wild honey. Common English Bible John wore clothes made of camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He ate locusts and wild honey. Catholic Public Domain Version Now the same John had a garment made from the hair of camels, and a leather belt around his waist. And his food was locusts and wild honey. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the same John had his garment of camels' hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins: and his meat was locusts and wild honey. |
They answered him, “A hairy man, with a leather belt around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”
at that time the Lord had spoken to Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take your sandals off your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.
Of them you may eat: the locust according to its kind, the bald locust according to its kind, the cricket according to its kind, and the grasshopper according to its kind.
On that day the prophets will be ashamed, every one, of their visions when they prophesy; they will not put on a hairy mantle in order to deceive,
Lo, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon’;
What then did you go out to see? Someone dressed in soft robes? Look, those who wear soft robes are in royal palaces.
Now John was clothed with camel's hair, with a leather belt around his waist, and he ate locusts and wild honey.
With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;
And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”