Jeremiah 48:37
New International Version
Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.

New Living Translation
The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap.

English Standard Version
“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.

Berean Standard Bible
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

King James Bible
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

New King James Version
“For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth—

New American Standard Bible
For every head is shaved bald, and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands, and sackcloth around the waists.

NASB 1995
“For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

NASB 1977
“For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Legacy Standard Bible
For every head is bald and every beard cut short; there are gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

Amplified Bible
For every head is [shaven] bald and every beard cut off; there are cuts (slashes) on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins [all expressions of mourning].

Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Indeed, every head is bald and every beard clipped; on every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.

American Standard Version
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For their heads are sheared and their beards are shaven and upon all their hands is sorrow, and upon the waist, sackcloth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They shall all have their heads shaved in every place, and every beard shall be shaved; and all hands shall beat the breasts, and on all loins shall be sackcloth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.

English Revised Version
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off. There are gashes on every hand and sackcloth on every waist.

Good News Translation
All of them have shaved their heads and cut off their beards. They have all made gashes on their hands, and everyone is wearing sackcloth.

International Standard Version
Indeed every head will be bald and every beard cut short. There will be gashes on all the hands and sackcloth on the loins.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For every head is bald, And every beard clipped; Upon all the hands are cuttings, And upon the loins sackcloth.

Literal Standard Version
For every head [is] bald, and every beard diminished, | On all hands—cuttings, and on the loins—sackcloth.

Majority Standard Bible
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.

New American Bible
Every head has been shaved bald, every beard cut off; every hand gashed, and all their loins are draped in sackcloth.

NET Bible
For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.

New Revised Standard Version
For every head is shaved and every beard cut off; on all the hands there are gashes, and on the loins sackcloth.

New Heart English Bible
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the waist sackcloth.

Webster's Bible Translation
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

World English Bible
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.

Young's Literal Translation
For every head is bald, and every beard diminished, On all hands cuttings, and on the loins -- sackcloth.

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Context
The Judgment on Moab
36Therefore My heart laments like a flute for Moab; it laments like a flute for the men of Kir-heres, because the wealth they acquired has perished. 37For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth. 38On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.…

Cross References
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his clothes, put sackcloth around his waist, and mourned for his son many days.

Isaiah 15:2
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.

Isaiah 15:3
In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

Isaiah 20:2
the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, "Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet." And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot.

Jeremiah 16:6
"Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.

Jeremiah 41:5
eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.

Jeremiah 47:5
The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?


Treasury of Scripture

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands shall be cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.

every head

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:

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.

Jeremiah 47:5
Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

clipped [heb] diminished

Leviticus 19:28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

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.

Mark 5:5
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

upon the loins

Genesis 37:29,34
And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes…

1 Kings 21:27
And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

2 Kings 6:30
And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

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Jeremiah 48
1. The judgment of Moab
7. for their pride
11. for their security
14. for their carnal confidence
26. and for their contempt of God and his people
47. The restoration of Moab














Verses 37, 38 (first part). - Based on Isaiah 15:2 (latter part), 3 (first part). On the primitive Arabic, Egyptian, and Hebrew custom of cutting off the hair, see on Jeremiah 16:6, and comp. Herod., 2:36. Clipped. The difference from the word in Isaiah is so slight that it may easily have arisen from a copyist. The meaning is virtually the same. Cuttings. So of Philistia (Jeremiah 47:5); see on Jeremiah 16:6.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

every
כָל־ (ḵāl)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

head
רֹאשׁ֙ (rōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7218: The head

is shaved
קָרְחָ֔ה (qā·rə·ḥāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 7144: Baldness, bald spot

and every
וְכָל־ (wə·ḵāl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

beard
זָקָ֖ן (zā·qān)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 2206: Beard, chin

is clipped;
גְּרֻעָ֑ה (gə·ru·‘āh)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's 1639: To scrape off, to shave, remove, lessen, withhold

on
עַ֤ל (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

every
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

hand
יָדַ֙יִם֙ (yā·ḏa·yim)
Noun - fd
Strong's 3027: A hand

is a gash
גְּדֻדֹ֔ת (gə·ḏu·ḏōṯ)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1417: A furrow, cutting

and around
וְעַל־ (wə·‘al-)
Conjunctive waw | Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

every waist
מָתְנַ֖יִם (mā·ṯə·na·yim)
Noun - md
Strong's 4975: The waist, small of the back, the loins

[is] sackcloth.
שָֽׂק׃ (śāq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag


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