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.
• English Standard Version (ESV)"For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is 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—

Context of Jeremiah 48:37

35Moreover I will make an end in Moab”—it is a declaration of Adonai—“of the one offering on the high place and the one burning incense to his gods.” 36“That is why my heart is moaning like funeral flutes for Moab, and my heart moans like flutes for the people of Kir-heres. Thus the wealth he made is lost. For every head is bald, every beard clipped, on all the hands are gashes, and around the waist sackcloth. 38On all the housetops of Moab and in its squares— lamentation everywhere! For I have broken Moab like a jar In which no one delights” —it is a declaration of Adonai— 39“‘How shattered it is!’ they wailed! ‘How Moab turned his back in shame!’ So Moab will become a laughingstock and a horror to all 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 will die in this land; they will not be buried; neither will anyone lament for them, or cut themselves or shave his head for them.
• Jeremiah 41:5that 80 men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, with their beards shaved off, their clothes rent, and having gashed themselves, with grain offerings and frankincense in their hand to bring to the House of Adonai.
• Jeremiah 47:5Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon is ruined. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
• Isaiah 3:24Now it will come to pass: Instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness; instead of a sash, rags; instead of curled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.
• Isaiah 15:2He has gone up to the shrine, to Dibon, to the high places to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is bald, every beard shaven.
• Ezekiel 7:18They will also gird on sackcloth. Horror will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces. Baldness will be upon all their heads.
• Ezekiel 27:31They will shave themselves bald for you and put on sackcloth. They will weep for you with bitter soul, with bitter lament.
• Amos 8:10I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into a dirge. I will pull up sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son— its end a bitter day.”
• Micah 1:16Shave yourself bald, yes shear your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your bald spot like a vulture, for they went from you into exile.
• Leviticus 19:28You are not to make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead or make any tattoo marks upon yourself. I am Adonai.
• 1 Kings 18:28So they shouted even louder and cut themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
• Mark 5:5And through it all, night and day, at the graveyard and in the mountains, he kept screaming and gashing 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 21:27Now when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes, put sackcloth on his body, fasted, lay in sackcloth and walked about subdued.
• 2 Kings 6:30Now it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman, that he tore his clothes—as he was passing by on the wall, the people looked, and behold, he had sackcloth underneath upon his flesh.
• Isaiah 20:2at that time Adonai spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your loins and your sandals from your feet.” So 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