Isaiah 3:24
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24 Instead of perfume there will be a stench;
and instead of a sash, a rope;
and instead of well-styled hair, baldness;
and instead of a rich robe, a binding of sackcloth;
instead of beauty, shame.[a](A)
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- 3.24 Q ms: MT lacks shame
Ezekiel 27:31
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31 they make themselves bald for you
and put on sackcloth,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.(A)
Lamentations 2:10
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10 The elders of daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads;
they put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.(A)
Micah 1:16
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16 Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair
for your pampered children;
make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they have gone from you into exile.(A)
Isaiah 22:12
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12 On that day the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and putting on sackcloth,(A)
Isaiah 15:3
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3 in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.(A)
1 Peter 3:3
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3 Do not adorn yourselves outwardly by braiding your hair and by wearing gold ornaments or fine clothing;(A)
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Amos 8:10
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10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.(A)
Esther 2:12
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12 The turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their cosmetic treatment: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and cosmetics for women.
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Leviticus 26:16
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16 I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.(A)
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Revelation 18:9
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9 And the kings of the earth, who engaged in sexual immorality[a] and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning;(A)
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- 18.9 Or prostitution
Revelation 16:9
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9 they were scorched by the fierce heat, but they cursed the name of God, who had authority over these plagues, and they did not repent and give him glory.(A)
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Revelation 11:3
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3 And I will grant my two witnesses authority to prophesy for one thousand two hundred sixty days, wearing sackcloth.”(A)
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Joel 1:8
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8 Lament like a virgin dressed in sackcloth
for the husband of her youth.(A)
Ezekiel 7:18
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18 They shall put on sackcloth;
horror shall cover them.
Shame shall be on all faces,
baldness on all their heads.(A)
Jeremiah 48:37
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37 For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes and on the loins sackcloth.(A)
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Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth
and roll in ashes;
make mourning as for an only child,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.(A)
Jeremiah 4:8
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8 Because of this put on sackcloth,
lament and wail:
“The fierce anger of the Lord
has not turned away from us.”(A)
Isaiah 57:9
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9 You journeyed to Molech[a] with oil
and multiplied your perfumes;
you sent your envoys far away
and sent them down to Sheol.(A)
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- 57.9 Or the king
Isaiah 32:9-11
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Complacent Women Warned of Disaster
9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice;
you complacent daughters, listen to my speech.(A)
10 In little more than a year
you will shudder, you complacent ones,
for the vintage will fail;
the fruit harvest will not come.(B)
11 Tremble, you women who are at ease;
shudder, you complacent ones;
strip and make yourselves bare,
and put sackcloth on your loins.(C)
Proverbs 31:24
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24 She makes linen garments and sells them;
she supplies the merchant with sashes.
Proverbs 7:17
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17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh,
aloes, and cinnamon.
Job 16:15
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15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin
and have laid my strength in the dust.(A)
Deuteronomy 32:24
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24 wasting hunger,
burning consumption,
bitter pestilence.
The teeth of beasts I will send against them,
with venom of things crawling in the dust.(A)
Deuteronomy 28:22
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22 The Lord will afflict you with consumption, fever, inflammation, with fiery heat and drought,[a] and with blight and mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.(A)
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- 28.22 Gk Syr Tg: MT the sword
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