Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

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

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].

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.

Darby Translation

For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are 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 For this, my heart shall sound for Moab as pipes, and my heart shall sound for the men of Kirheres as pipes: for the riches he made perished. 37 For every head bald, and every beard shaved: upon all hands cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. 38 Upon all the roof of Moab, and in the streets altogether lamentation: for I brake Moab as a vessel, no delight in it, says Jehovah.

Cross References

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob will rend his garments, and will put sackcloth upon his loins, and will mourn for his son many days.

Isaiah 15:2-3

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.

Jeremiah 41:5

And men will come from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Shomeron, eighty men, shaving the beard, and their garments rent, and cutting themselves, and a gift and frankincense in their hand, to bring to the house of Jehovah.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness came upon Gaza; Ashkelon was destroyed, the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

Isaiah 20:2

In that time spake Jehovah by the hand of Isaiah, son of Amos, saying, Go loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and thou shalt draw off the shoe from thy foot And he will do so, going naked and barefoot

Jeremiah 16:6

And the great and small died in this land: they shall not be buried, and they shall not lament for them, and none shall cut himself or make bald for them:

Genesis 37:29

And Reuben turned back to the pit; and behold, Joseph not in the pit: and he rent his garments.

Leviticus 19:28

And ye shall not give an incision for the soul in your flesh, and a mark of stigma ye shall not give upon you: I Jehovah.

1 Kings 18:28

And they will call with a great voice, and they will cut themselves according to their judgment, with swords and with spears, even to the pouring out of blood upon them.

1 Kings 21:27

And it will be when Ahab heard these words, and he will rend his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and he will fast and lie down in sackcloth, and go softly.

2 Kings 6:30

And it will be when the king heard the woman's words, and he will rend his garments; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people will see, and behold, sackcloth upon his flesh, from within.

Isaiah 3:24

And it was instead of a sweet smell there shall be rottenness, and instead of a girdle, a rope, and instead of turned work, baldness, and instead of a variegated garment, a girding of sackcloth a brand instead of beauty.

Isaiah 37:1

And it will be when king Hezekiah heard, and he will rend his garments, and he will be covered with sackcloth and go in to the house of Jehovah.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they girded on sackcloth and trembling covered them; and shame to all faces, and upon all heads, baldness.

Ezekiel 27:31

And they made themselves bald with baldness for thee, and they girded themselves with sackcloth, and they wept for thee with bitterness of soul and bitter wailing.

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.

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.

Mark 5:5

And always, night and day, was he in the mountains, and among the monuments, crying, and mangling himself with stones.

Revelation 11:3

And I will give to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, surrounded with sackcloth.

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