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 every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

One has gone up to the house, even to Dibon, the high places, to weep. Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba; baldness shall be on all their heads, every beard cut off.

They shall also gird on sackcloth, and trembling shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all heads.

Make yourself bald, and cut off your hair for the sons of your delight; make your baldness large like the eagle; for they go into exile from you.

The remnant

because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines and to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every survivor who helps. For Jehovah will plunder the Philistines, the rest of the country 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 Azzah, and Ekron, and the rest of Ashdod;

So the Lord Jehovah says this: Behold, I will stretch out My hand on the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and will destroy the rest of the sea coast.

How

The Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,

some men from Shechem came from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even eighty men, with their beards shaved, and their clothes torn, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of Jehovah.

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped. On all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks on you. I am Jehovah.

They shall not make baldness on their head, nor shall they shave the corner of their beard, nor make any cutting in their flesh.

You are the sons of Jehovah your God. You shall not cut yourselves nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

And they cried with a loud voice and cut themselves with knives and spears until the blood gushed out on them, as is their way.

And always, night and day, he was in the mountains and in the tombs, crying and cutting himself with stones.