Ezra 9:3

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Ezra 9:3

Hearing this, with signs of grief and pulling out the hair of my head and my chin, I took my seat on the earth deeply troubled.

Nehemiah 1:4

After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.

Joshua 7:6

And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

Leviticus 21:5

You should never mourn by shaving bald spots on your heads, shaving the edges of your beards, or slashing your bodies.

2 Kings 18:37-1

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief. They reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.

I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair. I made them take an oath by God, saying: You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

Job 1:20

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

Job 2:12-13

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

Psalm 66:3

Say to God: How awe-inspiring are your deeds! Your power is so great that your enemies will cringe in front of you.

Psalm 143:4

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart is devastated within me.

Isaiah 15:2

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.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and cast it away. Take up a cry of sorrow and grief on the bare heights. Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'

Jeremiah 36:24

The king and all his attendants did not show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read.

Jeremiah 48:37-38

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

Ezekiel 3:15

I went to Tel Abib, to the exiles that lived by the Chebar River. I sat there among them for seven days. I was stunned among them.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.

Daniel 4:19

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken dumb for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king said, Belteshazzar, do not let the dream or the interpretation trouble you. Belteshazzar answered: My lord, the dream may be to them that hate you and the interpretation to your adversaries.

Daniel 8:27

I, Daniel, fainted from exhaustion, and was sick for days. Then I rose up, and did the king's business. I wondered about the vision, but none understood it.

Micah 1:16

Make yourself bald. Cut off your hair for the children of your delight! Enlarge your baldness as the eagle. For your children are gone into exile (captivity) from you.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ezra 9:3

And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.

Rent

Jeremiah 36:24

Off

Micah 1:16

Sat

Daniel 8:27

General references

Genesis 37:34

Nehemiah 10:30

Bible References

Rent

And Joshua ripped his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until evening. He threw dust on his head. The elders of Israel did the same.

Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah tore their clothes in grief. They reported to the king what the Assyrian official had said.

When King Hezekiah heard their report he tore his clothes in grief. He dressed in sackcloth and went to the Temple of Jehovah.

Then Job got up and tore his clothes in grief. He shaved his head and threw himself face down on the ground.

The king and all his attendants did not show any fear or tear their clothes in fear when they heard everything being read.

Off

You should never mourn by shaving bald spots on your heads, shaving the edges of your beards, or slashing your bodies.

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.

Cut off your hair and cast it away. Take up a cry of sorrow and grief on the bare heights. Jehovah has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'

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

They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.

Make yourself bald. Cut off your hair for the children of your delight! Enlarge your baldness as the eagle. For your children are gone into exile (captivity) from you.

Sat

After I heard these words I sat down on the ground and cried for days. I ate no food and offered prayer to the God of heaven.

They saw him from a distance and did not even recognize him. They cried out loud and wept. Each of them tore his clothes in grief. They threw dust on their heads.

Say to God: How awe-inspiring are your deeds! Your power is so great that your enemies will cringe in front of you.

Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me. My heart is devastated within me.

I went to Tel Abib, to the exiles that lived by the Chebar River. I sat there among them for seven days. I was stunned among them.

I, Daniel, fainted from exhaustion, and was sick for days. Then I rose up, and did the king's business. I wondered about the vision, but none understood it.

General references

Jacob tore his clothes in sorrow and put on sackcloth. He mourned for his son a long time.

That way we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;