Isaiah 15:2

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants, shaved off half their beards, cut away the lower halves of their garments at the buttocks, and sent them away.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s servants and had them shaved and their garments cut off halfway at the hips. Then he sent them away.

Job 1:20

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

Isaiah 14:31

Howl, O gate; cry out, O city! Philistia, all of you melts away! For there comes a smoke from the north, without a straggler in its ranks.

Isaiah 15:3

In the streets they wear sackcloth, and on the rooftops; In the squares everyone wails, streaming with tears.

Isaiah 16:12

When Moab wears himself out on the high places, and enters his sanctuary to pray, it shall avail him nothing.

Isaiah 16:7

Therefore let Moab wail, let everyone wail for Moab; For the raisin cakes of Kir-hareseth let them sigh, stricken with grief.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be stench, instead of a girdle, a rope, And instead of elaborate coiffure, baldness; instead of a rich gown, a sackcloth skirt. Then, instead of beauty, shame.

Jeremiah 3:21

A cry is heard on the heights! the plaintive weeping of Israel’s children, Because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord, their God.

Jeremiah 47:2

Thus says the Lord: See: waters are rising from the north, to become a torrent in flood; They shall flood the land and all it contains, the cities and their inhabitants. People will howl and wail, every inhabitant of the land.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is visited upon Gaza, Ashkelon is reduced to silence; Ashdod, remnant of their strength, how long will you gash yourself?

Jeremiah 48:1

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Ah, Nebo! it is ravaged; Kiriathaim is disgraced, captured; Disgraced and overthrown is the stronghold:

Jeremiah 48:18

Come down from glory, sit on the parched ground, enthroned daughter Dibon; Moab’s destroyer has fallen upon you, has shattered your strongholds.

Jeremiah 48:31

And so I wail over Moab, over all Moab I cry, over the people of Kir-heres I moan.

Jeremiah 48:35

I will leave no one in Moab—oracle of the Lord—to offer burnt offerings on the high place or to make sacrifices to their gods.

Jeremiah 49:3

Wail, Heshbon, “The ruin is destroyed!” shriek, villages of Rabbah! Put on sackcloth and lament! Run back and forth in the sheepfolds. For Milcom is going into exile, taking priest and prince with him.

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 27:31

For you they shave their heads bald and put on sackcloth; For you they weep bitterly, in anguished lament.

Ezekiel 30:2

Son of man, prophesy and say: Thus says the Lord God: Wail: “Alas the day!”

Ezekiel 7:18

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

Leviticus 13:40

When a man loses the hair of his head, he is simply bald on the crown and not unclean.

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.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into dirges. I will cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Numbers 21:28

For fire went forth from Heshbon and a blaze from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab and swallowed up the high places of the Arnon.

Numbers 21:30

From Heshbon to Dibon their dominion is no more; Ar is laid waste; fires blaze as far as Medeba.”

Numbers 32:3

“The region of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Baal-meon—

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, Baal-meon (names to be changed!), and Sibmah. These towns, which they rebuilt, they called by their old names. Other Conquests.

Deuteronomy 14:1

You are children of the Lord, your God. You shall not gash yourselves nor shave the hair above your foreheads for the dead.

Deuteronomy 34:1

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah which faces Jericho, and the Lord showed him all the land—Gilead, and as far as Dan,