Ezekiel 27:31

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

they make themselves bald for you and put on sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

Cross References

Isaiah 15:2

Daughter Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. Every head is shaved; every beard is shorn;

Isaiah 16:9

Therefore I weep as Jazer weeps for the vines of Sibmah; I drench you with my tears, O Heshbon and Elealeh, for the shout over your fruit harvest and your grain harvest has ceased.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.”

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-styled hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them; there shall be no gashing, no shaving of the head for them.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is silenced. O remnant of Anakim! How long will you gash yourselves?

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.

Ezekiel 29:18

Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre; every head was made bald and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had expended against it.

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall put on sackcloth; horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.

Joel 1:13

Put on sackcloth and lament, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, pass the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! Grain offering and drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make bald spots upon their heads or shave off the edges of their beards or make any gashes in their flesh.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Jonah 3:6

When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

Micah 1:16

Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for your pampered children; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they have gone from you into exile.

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail; I will go barefoot and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals and mourning like the ostriches.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.