Jeremiah 48:37

Jeremiah 48:37 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
• New International Version (NIV)Every head is shaved and every beard cut off; every hand is slashed and every waist is covered with sackcloth.
• New King James Version (NKJV)“For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth—
• New Living Translation (NLT)The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap.

Context of Jeremiah 48:37

35And I will bring to an end in Moab, declares the Lord, him who offers sacrifice in the high place and makes offerings to his god. 36Therefore my heart moans for Moab like a flute, and my heart moans like a flute for the men of Kir-hareseth. Therefore the riches they gained have perished. "For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord. 39How it is broken! How they wail! How Moab has turned his back in shame! So Moab has become a derision and a horror to all that are around him."

Jeremiah 48:37 word by word

כִּ֤י כָל־רֹאשׁ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְכָל־זָקָ֖ן גְּרֻעָ֑ה עַ֤ל כָּל־יָדַ֙יִם֙ גְּדֻדֹ֔ת וְעַל־מָתְנַ֖יִם שָֽׂק׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• For every headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• baldקׇרְחָהqorchâh qorchâ' · bald spotH7144
• and every beardזָקָןzâqân · beardH2206
• clippedגָּרַעgâra‛ · diminishH1639
• upon all the handsיָדyâd · handH3027
• cuttingsגְּדוּדgedûd gedûdâh · furrowH1417
• and upon the loinsמׇתְנַ֫יִםmôthen · loinH4975
• sackclothשַׂקώaq · sackclothH8242

Cross-references for Jeremiah 48:37

• Jeremiah 16:6Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.
• Jeremiah 41:5eighty 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.
• Jeremiah 47:5Baldness has come upon Gaza; Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourselves?
• Isaiah 3:24Instead of perfume there will be rottenness; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a rich robe, a skirt of sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
• Isaiah 15:2He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness; every beard is shorn;
• Ezekiel 7:18They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.
• Ezekiel 27:31they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.
• Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist 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.
• Micah 1:16Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.
• Leviticus 19:28You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the Lord.
• 1 Kings 18:28And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their custom with swords and lances, until the blood gushed out upon them.
• Mark 5:5Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.
• Genesis 37:29When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he tore his clothes
• 1 Kings 21:27And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly.
• 2 Kings 6:30When the king heard the words of the woman, he tore his clothes—now he was passing by on the wall—and the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth beneath on his body—
• Isaiah 20:2at that time the Lord spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, "Go, and loose the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandals from your feet," and he did so, walking naked and barefoot.

Commentaries on Jeremiah 48:37

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 37For every head shall be bald - These, as we have seen before, were signs of the deepest distress and desolation.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 37Cuttings - Compare Jeremiah 16:6, and marginal references.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-47Verses 14-47 . The destruction of Moab is further prophesied, to awaken them by national repentance and reformation to prevent the trouble, or by a personal repentance and reformation to prepare for it. In reading this long roll of threatenings, and mediating on the terror, it will be of more use to us to keep in view the power of God's anger and the terror of his judgments, and to have our hearts possessed with a holy awe of God and of his wrath, than to…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 35-37The Moabites showed their sorrow and grief through traditional actions. They shaved their heads and beards, cut their hands, and wore burlap clothing (Jeremiah 41:5; Job 1:20).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3737. (See on Jr 47:5; Is 15:2, 3). upon all ... hands--that is, arms, in which such cuttings used to be made in token of grief (compare Zec 13:6).Read the comment

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Commentaries on Jeremiah 48

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings