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 47:5
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5 Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon is silenced.
O remnant of Anakim![a]
How long will you gash yourselves?(A)
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- 47.5 Gk: Heb their valley
Jeremiah 41:5
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5 eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria with their beards shaved and their clothes torn and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the Lord.(A)
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Isaiah 15:2-3
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2 Daughter Dibon[a] has gone up
to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
Every head is shaved;
every beard is shorn;(A)
3 in the streets they bind on sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.(B)
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- 15.2 Cn: Heb the house and Dibon
Genesis 37:34
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34 Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.(A)
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Jeremiah 16:6
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6 Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them; there shall be no gashing, no shaving of the head for them.(A)
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Isaiah 20:2
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2 at that time the Lord had spoken to Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loose the sackcloth from your loins and take your sandals off your feet,” and he had done so, walking naked and barefoot.(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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Mark 5:5
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5 Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones.
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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)
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)
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)
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)
Isaiah 37:1
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Hezekiah Consults Isaiah
37 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.(A)
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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
2 Kings 6:30
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30 When the king heard the words of the woman he tore his clothes—now since he was walking on the city wall, the people could see that he had sackcloth on his body underneath(A)—
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1 Kings 21:27
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27 When Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth over his bare flesh; he fasted, lay in the sackcloth, and went about dejectedly.(A)
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1 Kings 18:28
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28 Then they cried aloud, and, as was their custom, they cut themselves with swords and lances until the blood gushed out over them.(A)
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Leviticus 19:28
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28 You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you: I am the Lord.(A)
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Genesis 37:29
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29 When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes.(A)
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