Ezekiel 27:31

They will shave their heads bald for you and bind themselves with sackcloth, 1 and they will weep bitterly over you and they will cry out. 1

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And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

In Context

30Then they will make you listen to their voice and will wail bitterly; 1 they will cast dust up on their heads. They will roll about in ashes. 1

32They will lift up their wails of lamentation for you and sing dirges over you, 1 Who is like Tyre, who has now been brought to silence in the middle of the sea? 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 14:1You are the people of Yahweh your God. Do not cut yourselves, nor shave any part of your face for the dead.

Isaiah 16:9Indeed I will weep along with Jazer for the vineyard of Sibmah. 1 I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh. 1 For on your fields of summer fruits and harvest I have ended the shouts of joy. 1

Isaiah 22:12The Lord Yahweh of hosts called on that day 1 for weeping, for mourning, for shaved heads, and the wearing of sackcloth. 1

Jeremiah 47:5Baldness will come upon Gaza. As for Ashkelon, the people who are left in their valley will be made silent. 1 How long will you cut yourself in mourning? 1

Ezekiel 7:18and they will wear sackcloth, and terror will cover them; 1 and shame will be on every face, and baldness on all of their heads. 1

Amos 8:10I will turn your festivals into mourning 1 and all your songs into lamentation. 1 I will make all of you wear sackcloth 1 and have baldness on every head. 1 I will make it like mourning for an only son, 1 and a bitter day to its end. 1

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 27:27-36

The Fall of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 26 Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas. 27 Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the midst of the seas in the day of thy ruin. 28 The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots. 29 And all that handle the… Read the whole commentary →

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