Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

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

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.

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 {Therefore} my heart moans for Moab like the flute. It moans for the people of Kir-heres like the flute. {Therefore} [the] wealth they gained has perished. 37 For [on] every head [is] baldness, and every beard is trimmed. On all [the] hands, slashes, and on [the] loins, sackcloth. 38 On all the roofs of Moab, and in its public squares, [there is] wailing everywhere. For I have broken Moab like a vessel, there is no delight in it," {declares} Yahweh.



Cross References

Genesis 37:34

And Jacob tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.

Isaiah 15:2-3

It has gone up [to] the house, and Dibon [to] the high places for weeping over Nebo, and Moab wails over Medeba. {Every head is bald}, every beard [is] shaved.

Jeremiah 41:5

then men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men [with] shaven beards and torn garments, [who had] cut themselves with blades, {having} grain offerings and frankincense in their hands to bring [to] the {temple} of Yahweh.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is destroyed. O remnant of their valley, {how long} will you cut yourself with a blade?

Isaiah 20:2

at that time, Yahweh had spoken by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Go and loosen the sackcloth from your loins, and take off your sandals from your feet," and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.

Jeremiah 16:6

Both the great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried, and they will not mourn for them, and no one will cut himself with a blade, and no one will shave himself for them.

Genesis 37:29

Then Reuben returned to the pit and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit. And he tore his clothes.

Leviticus 19:28

And you shall not make a slash in your body for a dead person, nor shall you make on yourselves a tattoo's mark; I [am] Yahweh.

1 Kings 18:28

So they called out with a loud voice, and they cut themselves with swords and with spears as was their custom, until the blood poured out over them.

1 Kings 21:27

When Ahab heard these words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his flesh, fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.

2 Kings 6:30

It happened that when the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes. Now he had been walking on the wall, and the people saw, and behold, sackcloth was over his flesh underneath.

Isaiah 3:24

And this shall happen: There will be a stench instead of perfume, and a rope instead of a sash, and baldness instead of a well-set hairdo, and a clothing wrap of sackcloth instead of a rich robe, branding instead of beauty.

Isaiah 37:1

And this happened: When King Hezekiah heard, he tore his garments, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the temple of Yahweh.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they will wear sackcloth, and horror will cover them, and on all of [the] faces [will be] shame, and baldness on all of their heads.

Ezekiel 27:31

{They will shave themselves bald for your sake}, and they will dress themselves [in] sackcloth, and they will weep over you with bitterness of soul [and] with bitter wailing.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Micah 1:16

Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for the children of your pleasure. Expand your baldness as the eagle, for they will go into exile away from you.

Mark 5:5

And during every night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

Revelation 11:3

And I will grant [authority] to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy [for one] thousand two hundred sixty days, dressed in sackcloth."

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