Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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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;
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
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.
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.
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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Jeremiah 48:37
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Message Concerning Moab
36 Wherefore my heart mourneth for Moab, like a crowd playing a heavy song: and for the men's sake of the brick wall my heart mourneth also, even as a pipe that pipeth a doleful song. For they shall be very few, and destroyed. 37 All heads shall be shaven, and all beards clipped off: all hands bound, and all loins girded about with sack cloth. 38 Upon all the housetops and streets of Moab, there shall be mourning: For I will break Moab like an unprofitable vessel sayeth the LORD.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth about his loins, and sorrowed for his son a long season.
Isaiah 15:2-3
They went up to the idols' house, even to Dibon to the high places, to weep for Nebo; and Moab did mourn for Medeba. All their heads were bald, and all their beards shaven.
Jeremiah 41:5
there came certain men from Shechem, from Shiloh and Samaria, to the number of eighty, which had shaven their beards, rent their clothes, and were all heavy, bringing meat offerings, and incense in their hands, to offer it in the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza. Ashkelon with her other valleys shall keep her peace. How long wilt thou slay,
Isaiah 20:2
Then spake the LORD unto Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose off that sackcloth from thy loins, and put off thy shoes from thy feet." And so he did, going naked and barefoot.
Jeremiah 16:6
And in this land shall they die, old and young, and shall not be buried: no man shall beweep them, no man shall clip or shave himself for them.
Genesis 37:29
And when Reuben came again unto the pit and found not Joseph there, he rent his clothes,
Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not rent your flesh for any soul's sake, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
1 Kings 18:28
And they cried loud and cut themselves, as their manner was, with knives and lances, till the blood flowed on them.
1 Kings 21:27
When Ahab heard those words, he rent his clothes and put sackcloth about his flesh and fasted, and lay in sack and went comfortless.
2 Kings 6:30
When the king heard the words of the woman, he rent his clothes even as he was walking on the walls. And when the people looked upon him: see, he was clothed in sack under.
Isaiah 3:24
And instead of good smell there shall be stink among them. And for their girdles there shall be loose bands. And for well set hair there shall be baldness. Instead of a stomacher, a sackcloth; and for their beauty, witheredness and sunburning.
Isaiah 37:1
When Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went in to the temple of the LORD.
Ezekiel 7:18
they shall gird themselves with sack cloth, fear shall fall upon them. Their faces shall be confounded, and their heads bald;
Ezekiel 27:31
They shall shave themselves, and put sackcloth upon them for thy sake. They shall mourn for thee with heartful sorrow
Amos 8:10
Your high feasts will I turn to sorrow, and your songs to mourning: I will bring sackcloth upon all backs, and baldness on every head. Yea, such a mourning will I send them, as is made upon an only begotten son, and they shall have a miserable end.
Micah 1:16
Make thee bald, and shave thee, because of thy tender children: Make thee clean bald as an Eagle, for they shall be carried away captive from thee.
Mark 5:5
And always both night and day he cried in the mountains and in the graves and beat himself with stones.
Revelation 11:3
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."