Both great and small shall die in this land. (A)They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or (B)cut himself (C)or make himself bald for them.

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Clean and Unclean Food

14 “You are (A)the sons of the Lord your God. (B)You shall not cut yourselves or make any (C)baldness on your foreheads for the dead.

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(A)Baldness has come upon Gaza;
    (B)Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
    (C)how long will you gash yourselves?

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eighty men arrived from (A)Shechem and (B)Shiloh and (C)Samaria, with (D)their beards shaved and (E)their clothes torn, and (F)their bodies gashed, (G)bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.

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28 You shall not make any (A)cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.

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37 (A)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. (B)On all the hands are gashes, and (C)around the waist is sackcloth.

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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;

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15 Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave[a] and free, (A)hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 6:15 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface

And to (A)the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. (B)Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. (C)Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but (D)touch no one on whom is the mark. And (E)begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.

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18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:

(A)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
    (B)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
    (C)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (D)he shall be buried,
    dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”

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(A)They shall die of deadly diseases. (B)They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. (C)They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. (D)They shall perish by the sword and by famine, (E)and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

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13 Then you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: (B)the kings who sit on David's throne, (C)the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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29 (A)“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;
    raise a lamentation on (B)the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
    the generation of his wrath.’

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(A)And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;
    as with the slave, so with his master;
    as with the maid, so with her mistress;
(B)as with the buyer, so with the seller;
    as with the lender, so with the borrower;
    (C)as with the creditor, so with the debtor.

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14 So the Lord cut off from Israel (A)head and tail,
    palm branch and reed in one day—
15 (B)the elder and honored man is the head,
    and (C)the prophet who teaches lies is the tail;
16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
    and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not (D)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is (E)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks (F)folly.[a]
(G)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 9:17 Or speaks disgraceful things

12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and (A)books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is (B)the book of life. And (C)the dead were judged by what was written in the books, (D)according to what they had done.

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11 For behold, the Lord commands,
    and (A)the great house shall be struck down into fragments,
    and the little house into bits.

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