Isaiah 22:12

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When all this happened, the LORD All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah the prophet wrote a funeral song in honour of Josiah. And since then, anyone in Judah who mourns the death of Josiah sings that song. It is included in the collection of funeral songs.

Ezra 9:3

This news made me so angry that I ripped my clothes and tore hair from my head and beard. Then I just sat in shock

Nehemiah 9:9

When our ancestors were in Egypt, you saw their suffering; when they were at the Red Sea, you heard their cry for help.

Job 1:20

When Job heard this, he tore his clothes and shaved his head because of his great sorrow. He knelt on the ground, then worshipped God

Ecclesiastes 3:11

God makes everything happen at the right time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds about the past and the future.

Ecclesiastes 3:4

for crying and laughing, weeping and dancing,

Isaiah 15:2

Everyone in Dibon has gone up to the temple and the shrines to cry and weep. All of Moab is crying. Heads and beards are shaved because of what happened at Nebo and Medeba.

Isaiah 26:10

Even when the wicked are treated with mercy in this land of justice, they do wrong and are blind to your glory, our LORD.

Isaiah 29:1

Jerusalem, city of David, the place of my altar, you are in for trouble! Celebrate your festivals year after year.

Isaiah 3:24

In place of perfume, there will be a stink; in place of belts, there will be ropes; in place of fancy hair styles, they will have bald heads. Instead of expensive clothes, they will wear sackcloth; instead of beauty, they will have ugly scars.

Isaiah 32:11

Shake and shudder, you women without a care! Strip off your clothes— put on sackcloth.

Isaiah 37:1

As soon as Hezekiah heard the news, he tore off his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. Then he went into the temple of the LORD.

Isaiah 37:2

He told Prime Minister Eliakim, Assistant Prime Minister Shebna, and the senior priests to dress in sackcloth and tell me:

Isaiah 58:3

You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

Jeremiah 16:6

Rich and poor alike will die and be left unburied. No one will mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads.

Jeremiah 16:8

Don't even set foot in a house where there is eating and drinking and celebrating.

Jeremiah 4:8

Then I said to the people of Israel, “Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The LORD is still angry with us.’ ”

Jeremiah 7:29

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

Ezekiel 27:31

they shave their heads and dress in sackcloth as they cry in despair.

Daniel 5:1

One evening, King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his highest officials, and he drank wine with them.

Hosea 9:1

Israel, don't celebrate or make noisy shouts like other nations. You have been unfaithful to your God. Wherever grain is threshed, you behave like prostitutes because you enjoy the money you receive.

Joel 1:13

Mourn, you priests who serve at the altar of my God. Spend your days and nights wearing sackcloth. Offerings of grain and wine are no longer brought to the LORD's temple.

Joel 1:8

Grieve like a young woman mourning for the man she was to marry.

Joel 2:12

The LORD said: It isn't too late. You can still return to me with all your heart. Start crying and mourning! Go without eating.

Joel 2:17

Tell my servants, the priests, to cry inside the temple and to offer this prayer near the altar: “Save your people, LORD God! Don't let foreign nations make jokes about us. Don't let them laugh and ask, ‘Where is your God?’ ”

Amos 8:10

Your festivals and joyful singing will turn into sorrow. You will wear sackcloth and shave your heads, as you would at the death of your only son. It will be a horrible day.

Jonah 3:6

When the king of Nineveh heard what was happening, he also dressed in sackcloth; he left the royal palace and sat in dust.

Micah 1:16

Judah, shave your head as bald as a vulture and start mourning. Your precious children will be dragged off to a foreign country.

James 5:1

You rich people should cry and weep! Terrible things are going to happen to you.