They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
Jeremiah 47:5 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Baldness is come on `Aza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Baldness [as a token of mourning] will come upon Gaza; Ashkelon will be cut off and be dumb. O remnant of their valley and of the giants, how long will you gash yourselves [as a token of mourning]? American Standard Version (1901) Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is brought to nought, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself? Common English Bible Mourning will come upon Gaza; silence will cover Ashkelon, the few left in their valley. How long will you gash yourselves in grief? Catholic Public Domain Version Baldness has arrived over Gaza. Ashkelon has been silenced, along with the remnant of their valley. And how long will you continue to be cut down? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Baldness is come upon Gaza: Ascalon hath held her peace with the remnant of their valley. How long shalt thou cut thyself? |
They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
They have gone up to Bayit, and to Divon, to the high places, to weep. Mo'av wails over Nevo 1 and over Medeva. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them;
and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the `Utz, and all the kings of the Pelishtim, and Ashkelon, and `Aza, and `Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
that there came men from Shekhem, from Shiloh, and from Shomron, even eighty men, having their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with meal offerings and frankincense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the LORD.
The word of the LORD that came to Yirmeyahu the prophet concerning the Pelishtim, before that Par`oh struck `Aza.
because of the day that comes to destroy all the Pelishtim, to cut off from Tzor and Tzidon every helper who remains: for the LORD will destroy the Pelishtim, the remnant of the isle of Kaftor.
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.
therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I will stretch out my hand on the Pelishtim, and I will cut off the Kereti, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
*'You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you. I am the LORD.
*'They shall not shave their heads, neither shall they shave off the corners of their beards, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the rakham; for they have gone into captivity from you!
Always, night and day, in the tombs and in the mountains, he was crying out, and cutting himself with stones.
You are the children of the LORD your God: you shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Also Yehudah took `Aza with the border of it, and Ashkelon with the border of it, and `Ekron with the border of it.