Dibon has gone up to the temple, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;
Ezekiel 27:31 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional they make themselves bald for you, and put on sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And they make themselves [utterly] bald for you and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they weep over you in bitterness of heart and with bitter mourning and wailing. American Standard Version (1901) and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning. Common English Bible They cut off all their hair and put on mourning clothes. In despair they weep for you, and bitterly perform the mourning rites. Catholic Public Domain Version And they will shave their heads because of you, and they will be wrapped in haircloth. And they will weep for you with bitterness of soul, with a very bitter weeping. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And they shall shave themselves bald for thee and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping. |
Dibon has gone up to the temple, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;
Therefore I weep with the weeping of Jazer 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.
In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth;
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.
Instead of perfume there will be a stench; and instead of a sash, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.
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.
Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is silenced. O remnant of their power! How long will you gash yourselves?
For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes, and on the loins sackcloth.
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.
They shall put on sackcloth, horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.
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.
They shall not make bald spots upon their heads, or shave off the edges of their beards, or make any gashes in their flesh.
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.
When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from his throne, removed his robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
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.
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.
You are children of the Lord your God. You must not lacerate yourselves or shave your forelocks for the dead.