Jeremiah 48:37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁷ For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁷ For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁷ For every head is shaven bald and every beard cut off: upon all the hands are cuts (slashes) and upon the loins is sackcloth [all to express mourning]. [Isa. 15:2, 3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁷ For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Common English Bible

³⁷ Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, every hand is slashed, and everyone wears mourning clothes.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁷ For every head will be bald, and every beard will be shaved. All the hands will be bound together, and there will be haircloth on every back.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³⁷ For every head shall be bald and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together and upon every back there shall be haircloth.

Jeremiah 48:37 Cross References

Genesis 37:29

When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes.

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

1 Kings 18:28

Then they cried aloud, and, as was their custom, they cut themselves with swords and lances until the blood gushed out over them.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

2 Kings 6:30

When the king heard the words of the woman he tore his clothes—now since he was walking on the city wall, the people could see that he had sackcloth on his body underneath—

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,

Isaiah 20:2

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.

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.

Isaiah 37:1

When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them; there shall be no gashing, no shaving of the head for them.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria with their beards shaved and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.

Jeremiah 47:5

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

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.

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 29:18

Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had expended against it.

Ezekiel 7:18

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

Leviticus 19:28

You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

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.

Micah 1:16

Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for your pampered children; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they have gone from you into exile.

Mark 5:5

Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”