Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Jeremiah 48:37 in other translations
| BSB | For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth. |
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| WEB | For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist. |
| ASV | For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. |
| YLT | For every head is bald, and every beard diminished, On all hands cuttings, and on the loins--sackcloth. |
| DARBY | For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. |
| BBE | 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. |
| Webster | For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. |
What does Jeremiah 48:37 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Jeremiah 48:14-47
. The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of…
Jeremiah 48:37 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Jeremiah 48:37
- Isaiah 15:2-3
He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
- Genesis 37:34
And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.
- Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
- Jeremiah 41:5
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house of the Lord.
- Isaiah 20:2
At the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Jeremiah 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
- Isaiah 3:24
And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
- Genesis 37:29
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.
- Micah 1:16
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
- Isaiah 37:1
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
- Ezekiel 7:18
They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
- 1 Kings 18:28
And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
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Context
- Jeremiah 48:36
Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir–heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.
- Jeremiah 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
- Jeremiah 48:38
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the Lord.
Jeremiah 48:37 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque en toda cabeza habrá calva, y toda barba será raída; sobre todas manos rasguños, y sacos sobre todos los lomos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car toute tête sera chauve, et toute barbe sera coupée; sur toutes les mains il y aura des incisions, et le sac sera sur les reins; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn jedes Haupt ist kahl und jeder Bart abgeschoren; auf allen Händen sind Ritze, und Sacktuch ist an den Lenden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Omne enim caput calvitium, et omnis barba rasa erit: in cunctis manibus colligatio, et super omne dorsum cilicium: |