As soon as I heard this, I (A)tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and (B)sat appalled.

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Nehemiah's Prayer

As soon as I heard these words I (A)sat down and wept and mourned for days, and I continued fasting and praying before the (B)God of heaven.

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Then Joshua (A)tore his clothes and (B)fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put (C)dust on their heads.

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16 (A)Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
    for the children of your delight;
(B)make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
    for they shall go from you into exile.

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27 And (A)I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision (B)and did not understand it.

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Daniel Interprets the Second Dream

19 Then Daniel, whose name was (A)Belteshazzar, was (B)dismayed for a while, and (C)his thoughts alarmed him. The king answered and said, “Belteshazzar, let not the dream or the interpretation alarm you.” Belteshazzar answered and said, “My lord, (D)may the dream be for those who hate you (E)and its interpretation for your enemies!

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18 (A)They put on sackcloth, and (B)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and (C)baldness on all their heads.

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15 (A)And I came to the exiles at Tel-abib, who were dwelling (B)by the Chebar canal, and I sat where they were dwelling.[a] And (C)I sat there (D)overwhelmed among them (E)seven days.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 3:15 Or Chebar, and to where they dwelt

37 (A)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. (B)On all the hands are gashes, and (C)around the waist is sackcloth. 38 On all the housetops of Moab and in the squares there is nothing but lamentation, for I have broken Moab like (D)a vessel for which no one cares, declares the Lord.

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24 Yet (A)neither the king nor any of his servants who heard all these words was afraid, (B)nor did they tear their garments.

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29 (A)“‘Cut off your hair and cast it away;
    raise a lamentation on (B)the bare heights,
for the Lord has rejected and forsaken
    the generation of his wrath.’

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He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (A)Dibon,
    to the high places[b] to weep;
over (B)Nebo and over (C)Medeba
    Moab (D)wails.
On every head is (E)baldness;
    every beard is shorn;

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
  2. Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places

Therefore my spirit (A)faints within me;
    my heart within me is appalled.

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Say to God, (A)“How awesome are your deeds!
    So great is your power that your enemies (B)come cringing to you.

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12 And when they saw him from a distance, they did not recognize him. And they raised their voices and wept, and they (A)tore their robes and sprinkled (B)dust on their heads toward heaven. 13 And they sat with him on the ground (C)seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his suffering was very great.

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20 Then Job arose and (A)tore his (B)robe and (C)shaved his head (D)and fell on the ground and worshiped.

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25 (A)And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. (B)And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

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37 Then (A)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah (B)with their clothes torn and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.

Isaiah Reassures Hezekiah

19 (C)As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, (D)he tore his clothes and (E)covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.

(A)They shall not make bald patches on their heads, nor shave off the edges of their beards, nor make any cuts on their body.

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