Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

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.

New American Standard Bible

For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped; on every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.

International Standard Version

Indeed every head will be bald and every beard cut short. There will be gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

A Conservative Version

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. Upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

American Standard Version

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Amplified

For every head is [shaven] bald and every beard cut off; there are cuts (slashes) on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins [all expressions of mourning].

Darby Translation

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Julia Smith Translation

For every head bald, and every beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

King James 2000

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be gashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For [on] every head [is] baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all [the] hands, slashes, and on [the] loins, sackcloth.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth.

NET Bible

For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.

New Heart English Bible

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

The Emphasized Bible

For, every head, is baldness, And every beard, clipped: Upon all hands, are gashes, And upon the loins, sackcloth

Webster

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

World English Bible

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

Youngs Literal Translation

For every head is bald, and every beard diminished, On all hands cuttings, and on the loins -- sackcloth.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

shall be bald
קרחא קרחה 
Qorchah 
Usage: 11

and every beard
זקן 
Zaqan 
Usage: 19

גּרע 
Gara` 
Usage: 22

upon all the hands
יד 
Yad 
Usage: 1612

גּדדה גּדוּד 
G@duwd 
Usage: 1

and upon the loins
מתן 
Mothen 
Usage: 47

Context Readings

A Message Concerning Moab

36 So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end. 37 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. 38 On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 37:34

Then Jacob, giving signs of grief, put on haircloth, and went on weeping for his son day after day.

Isaiah 15:2-3

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.

Jeremiah 41:5

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.

Jeremiah 47:5

The hair is cut off from the head of Gaza; Ashkelon has come to nothing; the last of the Anakim are deeply wounding themselves.

Isaiah 20:2

At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.

Jeremiah 16:6

Death will overtake great as well as small in the land: their bodies will not be put in a resting-place, and no one will be weeping for them or wounding themselves or cutting off their hair for them:

Genesis 37:29

Now when Reuben came back to the hole, Joseph was not there; and giving signs of grief,

Leviticus 19:28

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

1 Kings 18:28

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

1 Kings 21:27

Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

2 Kings 6:30

Then the king, hearing what the woman said, took his robes in his hands, violently parting them; and, while he was walking on the wall, the people, looking, saw that under his robe he had haircloth on his flesh.

Isaiah 3:24

And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

Isaiah 37:1

And on hearing it Hezekiah took off his robe and put on haircloth and went into the house of the Lord.

Ezekiel 7:18

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.

Ezekiel 27:31

And they will have the hair of their heads cut off because of you, and will put haircloth on their bodies, weeping for you with bitter grief in their souls, even with bitter sorrow.

Amos 8:10

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

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.

Mark 5:5

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.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give orders to my two witnesses, and they will be prophets for a thousand, two hundred and sixty days, clothed with haircloth.

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