Micah 1:16
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16 (A)Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
(B)make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.
Isaiah 22:12
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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;
Jeremiah 7:29
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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.’
Job 1:20
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20 Then Job arose and (A)tore his (B)robe and (C)shaved his head (D)and fell on the ground and worshiped.
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Amos 8:10
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10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
(C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Jeremiah 16:6
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6 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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Isaiah 3:16-26
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16 The Lord said:
(A)Because (B)the daughters of Zion are haughty
and walk with outstretched necks,
glancing wantonly with their eyes,
mincing along as they go,
(C)tinkling with their feet,
17 therefore the Lord (D)will strike with a scab
the heads of (E)the daughters of Zion,
and the Lord will lay bare their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away (F)the finery of the anklets, the (G)headbands, and the (H)crescents; 19 the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; 20 the (I)headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; 21 the signet rings and (J)nose rings; 22 the (K)festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; 23 the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.
24 Instead of (L)perfume there will be rottenness;
and instead of a (M)belt, a rope;
and instead of (N)well-set hair, (O)baldness;
and instead of a rich robe, a (P)skirt of sackcloth;
and (Q)branding instead of beauty.
25 Your men shall fall by the sword
and your mighty men in battle.
26 And (R)her gates shall lament and mourn;
empty, she shall (S)sit on the ground.
Lamentations 4:5-8
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5 Those who once feasted on delicacies
perish in the streets;
(A)those who were brought up in purple
embrace ash heaps.
6 (B)For the chastisement[a] of the daughter of my people has been greater
than the punishment[b] of Sodom,
(C)which was overthrown in a moment,
and no hands were wrung for her.[c]
7 Her princes were purer than snow,
whiter than milk;
their bodies were more ruddy than coral,
the beauty of their form[d] was like sapphire.[e]
8 (D)Now their face is blacker than soot;
they are not recognized in the streets;
their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become as dry as wood.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 4:6 Or iniquity
- Lamentations 4:6 Or sin
- Lamentations 4:6 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Lamentations 4:7 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
- Lamentations 4:7 Hebrew lapis lazuli
Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
will come upon us.
Isaiah 39:6-7
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6 (A)Behold, the days are coming, when all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have stored up till this day, shall be carried to Babylon. Nothing shall be left, says the Lord. 7 (B)And some of your own sons, who will come from you, whom you will father, shall be taken away, and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
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Isaiah 15:2
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2 He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (A)Dibon,
to the high places[b] to weep;
over (B)Nebo and over (C)Medeba
Moab (D)wails.
On every head is (E)baldness;
every beard is shorn;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
- Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
Deuteronomy 28:56-57
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56 (A)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[a] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (B)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
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- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
Deuteronomy 28:41
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41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (A)they shall go into captivity.
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