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Selected Verse: Jeremiah 48:37 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Jer 48:37 |
King James |
For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
(See on Jer 47:5; Isa 15:2-3).
upon all . . . hands--that is, arms, in which such cuttings used to be made in token of grief (compare Zac 13:6). |
Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Cuttings - Compare Jer 16:6, and marginal references. |
Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
For every head shall be bald - These, as we have seen before, were signs of the deepest distress and desolation. |
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
5 Baldness is come upon Gaza; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?
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: