Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth:
New American Standard Bible
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King James Version
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Holman Bible
called for weeping,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
International Standard Version
On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth.
A Conservative Version
And in that day the Lord, LORD of hosts, called for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.
American Standard Version
And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Amplified
Therefore in that day the Lord God of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning,
To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation].
Bible in Basic English
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
Darby Translation
And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;
King James 2000
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding {with} sackcloth.
Modern King James verseion
And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth.
NET Bible
At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
New Heart English Bible
In that day, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
The Emphasized Bible
And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,
Webster
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
World English Bible
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
Youngs Literal Translation
And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
Themes
Baldness » Artificial, a sign of mourning
Happiness » Of the wicked » Leads to recklessness
Head » Illustrative » (made bald,) of heavy judgments
Judgments » Should lead to » Contrition
Sackcloth » Illustrative » (girding with,) of heavy afflictions
Interlinear
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Qara'
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 22:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Oracle Against Jerusalem
11 And ye made a gathering place between the two walls for the water of the old pool; and ye looked not to him making it, and ye saw not him forming it from far off. 12 And the Lord Jehovah of armies in that day will call to weeping and to wailing, and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth: 13 And behold, gladness and joy, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
Names
Cross References
Joel 2:17
Between the porch and to the altar the priests serving Jehovah shall weep, and they shall say, Spare, O Jehovah, thy people, and thou wilt not give thine inheritance to reproach for the nations to rule over them: wherefore shall they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
Joel 1:13
Be ye girded and lament, ye priests: wail, ye, serving the altar: come in, pass the night in sackcloth, ye serving God: for the gift and the libation were withheld from the house of your God.
Micah 1:16
Make bald, and shave for the sons of thy delights; increase thy baldness as the eagle; for they were carried away captive from thee.
2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah will lament for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women will speak concerning Josiah in their lamentations, even to this day, and they will give them for a law upon Israel: and behold them written upon the lamentations.
Ezra 9:3
And in my hearing this word I rent my garment and my robe, and I shall pluck off from the hair of my head and my beard, and I shall sit down, being astonished.
Nehemiah 8:9-12
And Nehemiah, (he the Tirshatha) will say, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites causing the people to understand, To all the people this day is holy to Jehovah your God; ye shall not mourn, and ye shall not weep. For all the people weeping in their hearing to the words of the law.
Nehemiah 9:9
And thou wilt see the humbling of our fathers in Egypt, and thou heardest their cry upon the sea of sedge:
Job 1:20
And Job will rise and rend his covering, and shave his head, and fall to the earth and worship.
Ecclesiastes 3:4
A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance:
Ecclesiastes 3:11
He made everything beautiful in his time: also he gave hidden time in their heart, so that man shall not find the work which God did from the beginning and even to the end.
Isaiah 15:2
He went up to the house and to Dibon, the heights, to weep: over Nebo and Medeba shall Moab wail: upon all their heads baldness; every beard cut off.
Amos 8:10
And turned your festivals into mourning, and all your songs to lamentation; and I brought up sackcloth upon all loins, and upon every head, baldness; and I set it as the mourning of an only one, and its last part as a day of bitterness.
Jonah 3:6
And the word will reach to the king of Nineveh, and he will rise from his throne, and he will take away his wide cloak from off him, and he will cover with sackcloth, and he will sit upon ashes.
James 4:8-10
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse the hands, ye sinful; and purify the hearts, ye double souled.
James 5:1
Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.