Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Baldness » Judgment
Gaza will shave its head in mourning. Ashkelon will be destroyed. How long will you cut yourselves, you people left on the plains?
Instead of the smell of perfume, there will be the smell of decay. They will wear ropes instead of belts. They will have baldheads instead of beautiful hair. They will wear sackcloth instead of expensive clothes. Their beauty will be scarred with brand marks.
They have all shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.'
They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
Sackcloth » A symbol of mourning
Cry loudly, Heshbon, because Ai is destroyed. Cry, people of Rabbah, put on your sackcloth, and mourn. Run back and forth between the walls. Milcom will be taken away into captivity with its priests and officials.
The elders of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth and keep silent. They throw dust on their heads. They are clothed in sackcloth. The heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are brought down to the earth.
I looked to Jehovah God to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced.
O my people put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son, a lamentation most bitter. For suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Dress in sackcloth, beat your breasts (mourn), and cry because Jehovah's burning anger has not turned back from us.
Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
His servants said to him: It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel. Maybe he will give you your life. So they put on haircloth, and cords on their heads, and went to the king of Israel and said: Your servant Benhadad says: 'Let me now keep my life.' And he said: Is he still living? He is my brother.
They have dress themselves with sackcloth in their streets. On their housetops and in their squares everyone is wailing, taken down with tears.