Ezra 9:3

New American Bible - revised edition

When I had heard this, I tore my cloak and my mantle, plucked hair from my head and beard, and sat there devastated.

Cross References

2 Samuel 1:11

David seized his garments and tore them, and so did all the men who were with him.

2 Kings 18:37

Then the master of the palace, Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, Shebnah the scribe, and the chancellor Joah, son of Asaph, came to Hezekiah with their garments torn, and reported to him the words of the commander.

Nehemiah 1:4

When I heard this report, I began to weep and continued mourning for several days, fasting and praying before the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 13:25

So I reprimanded and cursed them; I beat some of their men and pulled out their hair; and I adjured them by God: “You shall not marry your daughters to their sons nor accept any of their daughters for your sons or for yourselves!

Job 1:20

Then Job arose and tore his cloak and cut off his hair. He fell to the ground and worshiped.

Psalm 119:53

Rage seizes me because of the wicked; they forsake your law.

Psalm 143:4

My spirit is faint within me; my heart despairs.

Psalm 66:3

Say to God: “How awesome your deeds! Before your great strength your enemies cringe.

Isaiah 15:2

Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; Over Nebo and over Medeba Moab is wailing. Every head is shaved, every beard sheared off.

Jeremiah 36:24

As they were listening to all these words the king and all his officials did not become alarmed, nor did they tear their garments.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and throw it away! on the heights raise a lament; The Lord has indeed rejected and cast off the generation that draws down his wrath.

Ezekiel 3:15

Thus I came to the exiles who lived at Tel-abib by the river Chebar; and there where they dwelt, I stayed among them distraught for seven days.

Ezekiel 7:18

They put on sackcloth, horror clothes them; shame is on all their faces, all their heads are shaved bald.

Daniel 4:19

you are that tree, O king, large and strong! Your majesty has become so great as to touch the heavens, and your rule reaches to the ends of the earth.

Daniel 8:27

I, Daniel, was weak and ill for some days; then I arose and took care of the king’s affairs. But the vision left me desolate, without understanding.

Leviticus 21:5

The priests shall not make bald the crown of their head, nor shave the edges of their beard, nor lacerate their body.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald, cut off your hair, for the children whom you cherish; Make yourself bald as a vulture, for they are taken from you into exile.

Joshua 7:6

Joshua, together with the elders of Israel, tore their garments and fell face down before the ark of the Lord until evening; and they threw dust on their heads.