Isaiah 15:2

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off half the beard of each, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away.

1 Chronicles 19:4

So Hanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, at their hips, and sent them away;

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.

Isaiah 14:31

Wail, O gate; cry, O city; melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.”

Isaiah 15:3

in the streets they gird on sackcloth; on the housetops and in the squares every one wails and melts in tears.

Isaiah 16:12

And when Moab presents himself, when he wearies himself upon the high place, when he comes to his sanctuary to pray, he will not prevail.

Isaiah 16:7

Therefore let Moab wail, let every one wail for Moab. Mourn, utterly stricken, for the raisin-cakes of Kir-hareseth.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.

Jeremiah 3:21

A voice on the bare heights is heard, the weeping and pleading of Israel's sons because they have perverted their way, they have forgotten the Lord their God.

Jeremiah 47:2

“Thus says the Lord: Behold, waters are rising out of the north, and shall become an overflowing torrent; they shall overflow the land and all that fills it, the city and those who dwell in it. Men shall cry out, and every inhabitant of the land shall wail.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?

Jeremiah 48:1

Concerning Moab. Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Woe to Nebo, for it is laid waste! Kiriathaim is put to shame, it is taken; the fortress is put to shame and broken down;

Jeremiah 48:18

“Come down from your glory, and sit on the parched ground, O inhabitant of Dibon! For the destroyer of Moab has come up against you; he has destroyed your strongholds.

Jeremiah 48:31

Therefore I wail for Moab; I cry out for all Moab; for the men of Kir-heres I mourn.

Jeremiah 48:35

And I will bring to an end in Moab, says the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and burns incense to his god.

Jeremiah 49:3

“Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste! Cry, O daughters of Rabbah! Gird yourselves with sackcloth, lament, and run to and fro among the hedges! For Milcom shall go into exile, with his priests and his princes.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

Ezekiel 27:31

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

Ezekiel 30:2

“Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God: “Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’

Ezekiel 7:18

They gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror covers them; shame is upon all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

Leviticus 13:40

“If a man's hair has fallen from his head, he is bald but he is clean.

Leviticus 21:5

They shall not make tonsures upon their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon 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.

Numbers 21:28

For fire went forth from Heshbon, flame from the city of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the heights of the Arnon.

Numbers 21:30

So their posterity perished from Heshbon, as far as Dibon, and we laid waste until fire spread to Medeba.”

Numbers 32:3

“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names to be changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

Deuteronomy 14:1

“You are the sons of the Lord your God; you shall not cut yourselves or make any baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

Deuteronomy 34:1

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,