Ezekiel 7:18

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Summary

They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

Shall also

And horror

General references

Leviticus 19:27

Bible References

Shall also

Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.

They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Everyone's head is bald and every beard is cut off.

They have all shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.'

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation (dirges). I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. I will make it as the mourning for an only son like the end of a bitter day.

And horror

As the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and a deep and terrifying darkness descended upon him.

When I think of it I am dismayed, and trembling seizes my flesh.

Let those who gloat over my downfall be thoroughly put to shame and confused. Let those who promote themselves at my expense be clothed with shame and disgrace.

My heart is in turmoil within me. The terrors of death have seized me.

We must lie down in our shame and let our humiliation cover us. Ever since we were young, we and our fathers have sinned against Jehovah our God. We have not obeyed Jehovah our God.

The kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the military commanders, and the mighty men, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

General references

Do not shave the hair on your foreheads. Do not cut the edges of your beard.