Isaiah 15:2

Good News Translation

The people of Dibon climb the hill to weep at the shrine. The people of Moab wail in grief over the cities of Nebo and Medeba; they have shaved their heads and their beards in grief.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:4

Hanun seized David's messengers, shaved off one side of their beards, cut off their clothes at the hips, and sent them away.

1 Chronicles 19:4

Hanun seized David's messengers, shaved off their beards, cut off their clothes at the hips, and sent them away.

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face downward on the ground.

Isaiah 14:31

Howl and cry for help, all you Philistine cities! Be terrified, all of you! A cloud of dust is coming from the north—it is an army with no cowards in its ranks.

Isaiah 15:3

The people in the streets are dressed in sackcloth; in the city squares and on the rooftops people mourn and cry.

Isaiah 16:12

The people of Moab wear themselves out going to their mountain shrines and to their temples to pray, but it will do them no good.

Isaiah 16:7

The people of Moab will weep because of the troubles they suffer. They will all weep when they remember the fine food they used to eat in the city of Kir Heres. They will be driven to despair.

Isaiah 22:12

The Sovereign Lord Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of using perfumes, they will stink; instead of fine belts, they will wear coarse ropes; instead of having beautiful hair, they will be bald; instead of fine clothes, they will be dressed in rags; their beauty will be turned to shame!

Jeremiah 3:21

A noise is heard on the hilltops: it is the people of Israel crying and pleading because they have lived sinful lives and have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 47:2

He said: “Look! Waters are rising in the north and will rush like a river in flood. They will cover the land and everything on it, cities and the people who live there. People will call out for help; everyone on earth will cry bitterly.

Jeremiah 47:5

Great sorrow has come to the people of Gaza, and Ashkelon's people are silent. How long will the rest of Philistia mourn?

Jeremiah 48:1

This is what the Lord Almighty said about Moab: “Pity the people of Nebo— their town is destroyed! Kiriathaim is captured, its mighty fortress torn down, and its people put to shame;

Jeremiah 48:18

You that live in Dibon, come down from your place of honor and sit on the ground in the dust; Moab's destroyer is here and has left its forts in ruins.

Jeremiah 48:31

And so I will weep for everyone in Moab and for the people of Kir Heres.

Jeremiah 48:35

I will stop the people of Moab from making burnt offerings at their places of worship and from offering sacrifices to their gods. I, the Lord, have spoken.

Jeremiah 49:3

People of Heshbon, cry out! Ai is destroyed! Women of Rabbah, go into mourning! Put on sackcloth and mourn. Run about in confusion. Your god Molech will be taken into exile, together with his priests and princes.

Jeremiah 7:29

“Mourn, people of Jerusalem; cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a funeral song on the hilltops, because I, the Lord, am angry and have rejected my people.

Ezekiel 27:31

They shave their heads for you And dress themselves in sackcloth. Their hearts are bitter as they weep.

Ezekiel 30:2

“Mortal man,” he said, “prophesy and announce what I, the Sovereign Lord, am saying. You are to shout these words: A day of terror is coming!

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.

Leviticus 13:40

If you lose your hair at the back or the front of your head, this does not make you unclean.

Leviticus 21:5

“No priest shall shave any part of his head or trim his beard or cut gashes on his body to show that he is in mourning.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and change your glad songs into cries of grief. I will make you shave your heads and wear sackcloth, and you will be like parents mourning for their only child. That day will be bitter to the end.

Numbers 21:28

Once from this city of Heshbon Sihon's army went forth like a fire; It destroyed the city of Ar in Moab And devoured the hills of the upper Arnon.

Numbers 21:30

But now their descendants are destroyed, All the way from Heshbon to Dibon, From Nashim to Nophah, near Medeba.”

Numbers 32:3

“This region which the Lord has helped the Israelites occupy—the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sibmah, Nebo, and Beon—is good land for livestock, and we have so much livestock.

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, Baal Meon (this name was changed), and Sibmah. They gave new names to the towns they rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the people of the Lord your God. So when you mourn for the dead, don't gash yourselves or shave the front of your head, as other people do.

Deuteronomy 34:1

Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Mount Pisgah east of Jericho, and there the Lord showed him the whole land: the territory of Gilead as far north as the town of Dan;