Jeremiah 16:6

New American Bible - revised edition

They shall die, the great and the lowly, in this land, unburied and unlamented. No one will gash themselves or shave their heads for them.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Then he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in their own sanctuary, with compassion for neither young men nor young women, neither the old nor the infirm; all of them he delivered into his power.

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 24:2

People and priest shall fare alike: servant and master, Maid and mistress, buyer and seller, Lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

Jeremiah 13:13

say to them: Thus says the Lord: Beware! I am making all the inhabitants of this land drunk, the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests and prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 16:4

Of deadly disease they shall die. Unlamented and unburied they will lie like dung on the ground. Sword and famine will make an end of them, and their corpses will become food for the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth.

Jeremiah 41:5

eighty men, in ragged clothes, with beards shaved off and gashes on their bodies, came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, bringing grain offerings and incense for the house of the Lord.

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 48:37

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

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.

Jeremiah 8:2

and spread out before the sun, the moon, and the whole host of heaven, which they loved and served, which they followed, consulted, and worshiped. They will not be gathered up for burial, but will lie like dung upon the ground.

Leviticus 19:27

Do not clip your hair at the temples, nor spoil the edges of your beard.

Leviticus 19:28

Do not lacerate your bodies for the dead, and do not tattoo yourselves. I am the Lord.

Amos 6:11

Indeed, the Lord has given the command to shatter the great house to bits, and reduce the small house to rubble.

Matthew 9:23

When Jesus arrived at the official’s house and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion,

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.

Revelation 20:12

I saw the dead, the great and the lowly, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. Then another scroll was opened, the book of life. The dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the scrolls.

Revelation 6:15

The kings of the earth, the nobles, the military officers, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in caves and among mountain crags.