Isaiah 3:24

New Century Version

Instead of wearing sweet-smelling perfume, they will stink. Instead of fine cloth belts, they will wear the ropes of captives. Instead of having their hair fixed in fancy ways, they will be bald. Instead of fine clothes, they will wear clothes of sadness. Instead of being beautiful, they will wear the brand of a captive.

Cross References

Ezekiel 27:31

They shave their heads for you, and they put on rough cloth to show they are upset. They cry and sob for you; they cry loudly.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of Jerusalem sit on the ground in silence. They throw dust on their heads and put on rough cloth to show their sadness. The young women of Jerusalem bow their heads to the ground in sorrow.

Micah 1:16

Cut off your hair to show you are sad for the children you love. Make yourself bald like the eagle, because your children will be taken away to a foreign land.

Isaiah 22:12

The Lord God All-Powerful told the people to cry and be sad, to shave their heads and wear rough cloth.

Isaiah 15:3

In the streets they wear rough cloth to show their sadness. On the roofs and in the public squares, they are crying loudly.

1 Peter 3:3

It is not fancy hair, gold jewelry, or fine clothes that should make you beautiful.

Amos 8:10

I will change your festivals into days of crying for the dead, and all your songs will become songs of sadness. I will make all of you wear rough cloth to show your sadness; I will make you shave your heads as well. I will make it like a time of crying for the death of an only son, and its end like the end of an awful day.”

Esther 2:12

Before a girl could take her turn with King Xerxes, she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments that were ordered for the women. For six months she was treated with oil and myrrh and for six months with perfumes and cosmetics.

Leviticus 26:16

As a result, I will do this to you: I will cause terrible things to happen to you. I will cause you to have disease and fever that will destroy your eyes and slowly kill you. You will not have success when you plant your seed, and your enemy will eat your crops.

Revelation 18:9

The kings of the earth who sinned sexually with her and shared her wealth will see the smoke from her burning. Then they will cry and be sad because of her death.

Revelation 16:9

They were burned by the great heat, and they cursed the name of God, who had control over these disasters. But the people refused to change their hearts and lives and give glory to God.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give power to my two witnesses to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, and they will be dressed in rough cloth to show their sadness.”

Joel 1:8

Cry as a young woman cries when the man she was going to marry has died.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on rough cloth to show how sad they are. They will tremble all over with fear. Their faces will show their shame, and all their heads will be shaved.

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head has been shaved and every beard cut off. Everyone’s hands are cut, and everyone wears rough cloth around his waist.

Jeremiah 6:26

My people, put on rough cloth and roll in the ashes to show how sad you are. Cry loudly for those who are dead, as if your only son were dead, because the destroyer will soon come against us.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on rough cloth, show how sad you are, and cry loudly. The terrible anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.

Isaiah 57:9

You use your oils and perfumes to look nice for Molech. You have sent your messengers to faraway lands; you even tried to send them to the place of the dead.

Proverbs 31:24

She makes linen clothes and sells them and provides belts to the merchants.

Proverbs 7:17

I have made my bed smell sweet with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Job 16:15

“I have sewed rough cloth over my skin to show my sadness and have buried my face in the dust.

Deuteronomy 32:24

They will be starved and sick, destroyed by terrible diseases. I will send them vicious animals and gliding, poisonous snakes.

Deuteronomy 28:22

The Lord will punish you with disease, fever, swelling, heat, lack of rain, plant diseases, and mildew until you die.

Jeremiah 49:3

“People in the town of Heshbon, cry sadly because the town of Ai is destroyed! Those who live in Rabbah, cry out! Put on your rough cloth to show your sadness, and cry loudly. Run here and there for safety inside the walls, because Molech will be taken captive and his priests and officers with him.

Isaiah 4:4

The Lord will wash away the filth from the women of Jerusalem. He will wash the bloodstains out of Jerusalem and clean the city with the spirit of fairness and the spirit of fire.

Isaiah 3:23

their mirrors, linen dresses, turbans, and long shawls.

Isaiah 15:2

The people of Dibon go to the places of worship to cry. The people of Moab cry for the cities of Nebo and Medeba. Every head and beard has been shaved to show how sad Moab is.