Jeremiah 47:5

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Summary

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Baldness

The remnant

Jeremiah 47:4

Jeremiah 25:20

Ezekiel 25:16

How

Bible References

Baldness

For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle's; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners.

The remnant

Because of the day which is coming with destruction on all the Philistines, cutting off from Tyre and Zidon the last of their helpers: for the Lord will send destruction on the Philistines, the rest of the sea-land of Caphtor.

And all the mixed people and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon and Gaza and Ekron and the rest of Ashdod;

The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.

How

Then again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Some people came from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, eighty men, with the hair of their faces cut off and their clothing out of order, and with cuts on their bodies, and in their hands meal offerings and perfumes which they were taking to the house of the Lord.

For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.

You may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.

You are the children of the Lord your God: you are not to make cuts on your bodies or take off the hair on your brows in honour of the dead;

So they gave loud cries, cutting themselves with knives and swords, as was their way, till the blood came streaming out all over them.

And all the time, by day and by night, in the place of the dead, and in the mountains, he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.