John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads." — Ezekiel 7:18 (ASV)
They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth As a token of mourning, (Genesis 37:34) ; and horror shall cover them : either the horror of a guilty conscience, or the perpetual dread and terror of the enemy: and shame [shall be] upon all faces ; because of their sins and transgressions, which they shall now be convinced of; or because of their desolate condition, their sins had brought them into: and baldness upon all their heads ; through the plucking off of the hair of their heads in their distress; for to make baldness as a token of mourning for the dead was forbidden the Jews, (Deuteronomy 14:1) .