Isaiah 15:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. Every head is shaved; every beard is shorn;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² They are gone up to Bayith and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, and every beard is cut off [as a sign of deep sorrow and humiliation]. [Jer. 48:37.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

Common English Bible

² Dibon has gone up to the temple, to the shrines to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard cut off.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² The house has ascended with Dibon to the heights, in mourning over Nebo and over Medeba. Moab has wailed. There will be baldness on all of their heads, and every beard will be shaven.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places, to mourn over Nabo: and over Medaba Moab hath howled. On all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven.

Isaiah 15:2 Cross References

2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half the beard of each, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved them, cut off their garments in the middle at their waists, and sent them away,

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, tore his robe, shaved his head, and fell on the ground and worshiped.

Isaiah 14:31

Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.

Isaiah 15:3

in the streets they bind on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares everyone wails and melts in tears.

Isaiah 16:12

When Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

Isaiah 16:7

Therefore let Moab wail; let everyone wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-styled hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children, because they have perverted their way; they have forgotten the Lord their God:

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus says the Lord: See, waters are rising out of the north and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who live in it. People shall cry out, and all the inhabitants of the land shall wail.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is silenced. O remnant of Anakim! How long will you gash yourselves?

Jeremiah 48:1

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Alas for Nebo, it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame; it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from glory and sit on the parched ground, enthroned daughter Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

Jeremiah 48:31

Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the people of Kir-heres I mourn.

Jeremiah 48:35

And I will bring to an end in Moab, says the Lord, those who offer sacrifice at a high place and make offerings to their gods.

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth, lament, and slash yourselves with whips! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his attendants.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and throw it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation that provoked his wrath.

Ezekiel 27:31

they make themselves bald for you and put on sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

Ezekiel 30:2

Mortal, prophesy, and say: Thus says the Lord God: Wail, “Alas for the day!”

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall put on sackcloth; horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.

Leviticus 13:40

“If anyone loses the hair from his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Numbers 21:28

For fire came out from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab and swallowed up the heights of the Arnon.

Numbers 21:30

So their posterity perished from Heshbon to Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Medeba.”

Numbers 32:3

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon—

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, and Baal-meon (some names being changed), and Sibmah, and they gave names to the towns that they rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.

Deuteronomy 34:1

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan,