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For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: on all the hands are cuttings, and on the loins sackcloth.
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An Image of Utter Despair
Commentators agree that Jeremiah lists several intense mourning practices—shaved heads, clipped beards, self-inflicted cuts, and sackcloth—to illustrate the sheer magnitude of Moab's coming sorrow. This accumulation of symbols emphasizes that the calamity would be so great as to provoke universal and extreme lamentation.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Cuttings - Compare Jeremiah 16:6, and marginal references.
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet describes extensively a very great mourning. They were accustomed in great sorrow to pull off their hair, to shave their beard, to put …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For every head [shall be] bald, and every beard clipped
Men, in times of mourning, used to pluck off the hairs of …
