Isaiah 22:12

Bible in Basic English 1965

And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah made a song of grief for Josiah; and to this day Josiah is named by all the makers of melody, men and women, in their songs of grief; they made it a rule in Israel; and the songs are recorded among the songs of grief.

Ezra 9:3

And hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

Nehemiah 9:9

And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;

Job 1:20

Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,

Ecclesiastes 3:11

He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;

Isaiah 15:2

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

Isaiah 26:10

Even if you are kind to the evil-doer, he will not go after righteousness; even in the land of the upright he will still go on in his wrongdoing, and will not see the glory of the Lord.

Isaiah 29:1

Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:

Isaiah 3:24

And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

Isaiah 32:11

Be shaking with fear, you women who are living in comfort; be troubled, you who have no fear of danger: take off your robes and put on clothing of grief.

Isaiah 37:1

And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.

Isaiah 37:2

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 58:3

They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

Jeremiah 16:6

Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

Jeremiah 16:8

And you are not to go into the house of feasting, or be seated with them to take food or drink.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this put on haircloth, with weeping and loud crying: for the burning wrath of the Lord is not turned back from us.

Jeremiah 7:29

Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.

Ezekiel 27:31

And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

Daniel 5:1

Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, drinking wine before the thousand.

Hosea 9:1

Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.

Joel 1:13

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

Joel 1:8

Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

Joel 2:12

But even now, says the Lord, come back to me with all your heart, keeping from food, with weeping and with sorrow:

Joel 2:17

Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Amos 8:10

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Jonah 3:6

And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.

Micah 1:16

Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

James 5:1

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.