Re'uven returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
Jeremiah 48:37 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth. 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. |
Re'uven returned to the pit; and saw that Yosef wasn't in the pit; and he tore his clothes.
Ya`akov tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his waist, and mourned for his son many days.
They cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lances, until the blood gushed out on them.
It happened, when Ach'av heard those words, that he tore his clothes, and put sackcloth on his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.
It happened, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes (now he was passing by on the wall); and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth within on his flesh.
So Chanun took David's servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.
at that time the LORD spoke by Yeshaiyahu the son of Amotz, saying, *Go, and loosen the sackcloth from off your waist, and take your shoes from off your feet.* He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
It shall happen that instead of sweet spices, there shall be rottenness; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well set hair, baldness; instead of a robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
It happened, when king Chizkiyahu heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD's house.
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;
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.
Baldness is come on `Aza; Ashkelon is brought to nothing, the remnant of their valley: how long will you cut yourself?
Wail, Cheshbon, for `Ai is laid waste; cry, you daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth: lament, and run back and forth among the fences; for Malkam shall go into captivity, his Kohanim and his princes together.
and they shall make themselves bald for you, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
Son of man, Nevukhadnetzar 1 king of Bavel caused his army to serve a great service against Tzor: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was worn; yet had he no wages, nor his army, from Tzor, for the service that he had served against it.
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.
I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, 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.
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.
I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.*