Isaiah 3:24

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Job 16:15

I have sewn sackcloth on my skin, laid my horn low in the dust.

Proverbs 31:24

She makes garments and sells them, and stocks the merchants with belts.

Proverbs 7:17

I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

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.

Isaiah 15:3

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

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 3:23

the lace gowns, linen tunics, turbans, and shawls.

Isaiah 4:4

When the Lord washes away the filth of the daughters of Zion, And purges Jerusalem’s blood from her midst with a blast of judgment, a searing blast,

Isaiah 57:9

You approached the king with oil, and multiplied your perfumes; You sent your ambassadors far away, down even to deepest Sheol.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail: “The blazing anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.”

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head has been shaved bald, every beard cut off; every hand gashed, and all their loins are draped in sackcloth.

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 6:26

Daughter of my people, dress in sackcloth, roll in the ashes. Mourn as for an only child with bitter wailing: “How suddenly the destroyer comes upon us!”

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of daughter Zion sit silently on the ground; They cast dust on their heads and dress in sackcloth; The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground.

Ezekiel 27:31

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

Ezekiel 7:18

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

Joel 1:8

Wail like a young woman dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Leviticus 26:16

then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.

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.

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.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will strike you with consumption, fever, and inflammation, with fiery heat and drought, with blight and mildew, that will pursue you until you perish.

Deuteronomy 32:24

Emaciating hunger and consuming fever and bitter pestilence, And the teeth of wild beasts I will send among them, with the venom of reptiles gliding in the dust.

1 Peter 3:3

Your adornment should not be an external one: braiding the hair, wearing gold jewelry, or dressing in fine clothes,

Revelation 11:3

I will commission my two witnesses to prophesy for those twelve hundred and sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”

Revelation 16:9

People were burned by the scorching heat and blasphemed the name of God who had power over these plagues, but they did not repent or give him glory.

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who had intercourse with her in their wantonness will weep and mourn over her when they see the smoke of her pyre.