Isaiah 15:2

New Living Translation

Your people will go to their temple in Dibon to mourn. They will go to their sacred shrines to weep. They will wail for the fate of Nebo and Medeba, shaving their heads in sorrow and cutting off their beards.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun seized David’s ambassadors and shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them back to David in shame.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun seized David’s ambassadors and shaved them, cut off their robes at the buttocks, and sent them back to David in shame.

Job 1:20

Job stood up and tore his robe in grief. Then he shaved his head and fell to the ground to worship.

Isaiah 14:31

Wail at the gates! Weep in the cities! Melt with fear, you Philistines! A powerful army comes like smoke from the north. Each soldier rushes forward eager to fight.

Isaiah 15:3

They will wear burlap as they wander the streets. From every home and public square will come the sound of wailing.

Isaiah 16:12

The people of Moab will worship at their pagan shrines, but it will do them no good. They will cry to the gods in their temples, but no one will be able to save them.

Isaiah 16:7

The entire land of Moab weeps. Yes, everyone in Moab mourns for the cakes of raisins from Kir-hareseth. They are all gone now.

Isaiah 22:12

At that time the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, called you to weep and mourn. He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of smelling of sweet perfume, she will stink. She will wear a rope for a sash, and her elegant hair will fall out. She will wear rough burlap instead of rich robes. Shame will replace her beauty.

Jeremiah 3:21

Voices are heard high on the windswept mountains, the weeping and pleading of Israel’s people. For they have chosen crooked paths and have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 47:2

This is what the Lord says: “A flood is coming from the north to overflow the land. It will destroy the land and everything in it— cities and people alike. People will scream in terror, and everyone in the land will wail.

Jeremiah 47:5

Gaza will be humiliated, its head shaved bald; Ashkelon will lie silent. You remnant from the Mediterranean coast, how long will you cut yourselves in mourning?

Jeremiah 48:1

This message was given concerning Moab. This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “What sorrow awaits the city of Nebo; it will soon lie in ruins. The city of Kiriathaim will be humiliated and captured; the fortress will be humiliated and broken down.

Jeremiah 48:18

“Come down from your glory and sit in the dust, you people of Dibon, for those who destroy Moab will shatter Dibon, too. They will tear down all your towers.

Jeremiah 48:31

So now I wail for Moab; yes, I will mourn for Moab. My heart is broken for the men of Kir-hareseth.

Jeremiah 48:35

“I will put an end to Moab,” says the Lord, “for the people offer sacrifices at the pagan shrines and burn incense to their false gods.

Jeremiah 49:3

“Cry out, O Heshbon, for the town of Ai is destroyed. Weep, O people of Rabbah! Put on your clothes of mourning. Weep and wail, hiding in the hedges, for your god Molech, with his priests and officials, will be hauled off to distant lands.

Jeremiah 7:29

Shave your head in mourning, and weep alone on the mountains. For the Lord has rejected and forsaken this generation that has provoked his fury.’

Ezekiel 27:31

They shave their heads in grief for you and dress themselves in burlap. They weep for you with bitter anguish and deep mourning.

Ezekiel 30:2

“Son of man, prophesy and give this message from the Sovereign Lord: “Weep and wail for that day,

Ezekiel 7:18

They will dress themselves in burlap; horror and shame will cover them. They will shave their heads in sorrow and remorse.

Leviticus 13:40

“If a man loses his hair and his head becomes bald, he is still ceremonially clean.

Leviticus 21:5

“The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning and your singing into weeping. You will wear funeral clothes and shave your heads to show your sorrow— as if your only son had died. How very bitter that day will be!

Numbers 21:28

A fire flamed forth from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It burned the city of Ar in Moab; it destroyed the rulers of the Arnon heights.

Numbers 21:30

We have utterly destroyed them, from Heshbon to Dibon. We have completely wiped them out as far away as Nophah and Medeba.”

Numbers 32:3

“Notice the towns of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sibmah, Nebo, and Beon.

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, Baal-meon, and Sibmah. They changed the names of some of the towns they conquered and rebuilt.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“Since you are the people of the Lord your God, never cut yourselves or shave the hair above your foreheads in mourning for the dead.

Deuteronomy 34:1

Then Moses went up to Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab and climbed Pisgah Peak, which is across from Jericho. And the Lord showed him the whole land, from Gilead as far as Dan;