Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsake
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave hi
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and e
The LORD also says: “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty—walking with heads held high and wanton eyes, prancing an
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he s
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shav