When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.
Jeremiah 48:37 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth round the waist. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For every head is shaven bald and every beard cut off: upon all the hands are cuts (slashes) and upon the loins is sackcloth [all to express mourning]. [Isa. 15:2, 3.] American Standard Version (1901) For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. Common English Bible Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, every hand is slashed, and everyone wears mourning clothes. Catholic Public Domain Version For every head will be bald, and every beard will be shaved. All the hands will be bound together, and there will be haircloth on every back. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For every head shall be bald and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together and upon every back there shall be haircloth. |
When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes.
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth round his waist, and mourned for his son for many days.
They shouted loudly, and cut themselves with knives and spears, according to their custom, until blood gushed over them.
When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth over his body, and fasted. He lay down in sackcloth and walked around subdued.
When the king heard the woman’s words he tore his clothes. Then, as he was passing by on the wall, the people saw that there was sackcloth under his clothes next to his skin.
So Hanun took David’s emissaries, shaved them, cut their clothes in half at the hips, and sent them away.
during that time the Lord had spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, ‘Go, take off your sackcloth from your waist and remove the sandals from your feet,’ and he did that, going stripped and barefoot #– #
Instead of perfume there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of beautifully styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothes, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.
When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
eighty men came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria who had shaved their beards, torn their clothes, and gashed themselves, and who were carrying grain and incense offerings to bring to the temple of the Lord.
Baldness is coming to Gaza; Ashkelon will become silent. Remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
Wail, Heshbon, for Ai is devastated; cry out, daughters of Rabbah! Clothe yourselves with sackcloth, and lament; run back and forth within your walls, because Milcom will go into exile together with his priests and officials.
They shave their heads because of you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They weep over you with deep anguish and bitter mourning.
‘Son of man, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon made his army labour strenuously against Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder chafed, but he and his army received no compensation from Tyre for the labour he expended against it.
They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald.
You are not to make gashes on your bodies for the dead or put tattoo marks on yourselves; I am the Lord.
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.
Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.
Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains, he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.
I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for 1,260 days, dressed in sackcloth.’