Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version They will put on sackcloth and be clothed with terror. Every face will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved. New Living Translation They will dress themselves in burlap; horror and shame will cover them. They will shave their heads in sorrow and remorse. English Standard Version They put on sackcloth, and horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. Berean Standard Bible They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved. King James Bible 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. New King James Version They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads. New American Standard Bible They will put on sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and a bald patch on all their heads. NASB 1995 They will gird themselves with sackcloth and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads. NASB 1977 ‘And they will gird themselves with sackcloth, and shuddering will overwhelm them; and shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. Legacy Standard Bible They will gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them; and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads. Amplified Bible They will also cover themselves with sackcloth; horror will overwhelm them, and shame will be on all faces and baldness on all their heads [as evidence of grief]. Christian Standard Bible They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald. Holman Christian Standard Bible They will put on sackcloth, and horror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be bald. American Standard Version 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. Contemporary English Version You will put on sackcloth to show your sorrow, but terror will overpower you. Shame will be written all over your faces, and you will shave your heads in despair. English Revised Version 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. All their faces will be covered with shame, and every head will be shaved. Good News Translation They will put on sackcloth and they will tremble all over. Their heads will be shaved, and they will all be disgraced. International Standard Version "They'll clothe themselves with sackcloth, terror will overcome them, shame will cover their faces, and baldness will spread over their entire heads. Majority Standard Bible They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved. NET Bible They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. New Heart English Bible They shall also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. Webster's Bible Translation 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. World English Bible They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionAnd they have girded on sackcloth, "" And trembling has covered them, "" And shame [is] on all faces, "" And baldness on all their heads. Young's Literal Translation And they have girded on sackcloth, And covered them hath trembling, And unto all faces is shame, And on all their heads -- baldness. Smith's Literal Translation And they girded on sackcloth and trembling covered them; and shame to all faces, and upon all heads, baldness. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleAnd they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them, and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads. Catholic Public Domain Version And they will wrap themselves with haircloth, and dread will cover them. And shame will be upon every face, and baldness will be upon all of their heads. New American Bible They put on sackcloth, horror clothes them; shame is on all their faces, all their heads are shaved bald. New Revised Standard Version They shall put on sackcloth, horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe people shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all heads. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated And they shall put on sackcloth and dizziness shall cover them. Shame shall be on all their faces and tearing out hair on all their heads OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads. Brenton Septuagint Translation And they shall gird themselves with sackcloth, and amazement shall cover them; and shame shall be upon them, even upon every face, and baldness upon every head. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Desolation of Israel…17Every hand will go limp, and every knee will turn to water. 18They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved. 19They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.… Cross References Isaiah 15:2-3 Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. / In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. Jeremiah 48:37 For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth. Joel 1:13 Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God. Amos 8:10 I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day. Micah 1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich. Lamentations 2:10 The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground. Isaiah 3:24 Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame. Isaiah 22:12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. Jeremiah 4:8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.” Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us. Revelation 6:15-17 Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains. / And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. / For the great day of Their wrath has come, and who is able to withstand it?” Matthew 24:30 At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in heaven, and all the tribes of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. Luke 23:30 At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’ James 4:9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom. Revelation 18:10 In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.” Treasury of Scripture They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads. shall also Isaiah 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty. Isaiah 15:2,3 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… Jeremiah 48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth. and horror Genesis 15:12 And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. Psalm 35:26 Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify themselves against me. Jump to Previous Baldness Clothed Cover Covered Covering Covers Deep Faces Fear Gird Girded Hair Haircloth Heads Horror Overwhelm Round Sackcloth Shame Shaved Shuddering Terror Themselves TremblingJump to Next Baldness Clothed Cover Covered Covering Covers Deep Faces Fear Gird Girded Hair Haircloth Heads Horror Overwhelm Round Sackcloth Shame Shaved Shuddering Terror Themselves TremblingEzekiel 7 1. The final desolation of Israel16. The mournful repentance from that escape 20. The enemies defile the sanctuary because of the Israelites' abominations 23. Under the type of a chain is shown the miserable captivity of all orders of men They will wear sackcloth In ancient Israel, sackcloth was a coarse material made from goat's hair, often worn as a sign of mourning, repentance, or distress. The Hebrew word for sackcloth, "śaq," signifies a garment of humility and penitence. In the context of Ezekiel 7:18, the wearing of sackcloth symbolizes the deep sorrow and repentance of the people as they face the impending judgment of God. Historically, sackcloth was a public display of one's inner turmoil and acknowledgment of sin, often accompanied by fasting and prayer. This act of wearing sackcloth is a physical manifestation of the people's recognition of their need for divine mercy and forgiveness. and shuddering will cover them shame will cover every face and all their heads will be shaved Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew They will put onוְחָגְר֣וּ (wə·ḥā·ḡə·rū) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural Strong's 2296: To gird, gird on, gird oneself sackcloth, שַׂקִּ֔ים (śaq·qîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag and terror פַּלָּצ֑וּת (pal·lā·ṣūṯ) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6427: A shuddering will overwhelm them. וְכִסְּתָ֥ה (wə·ḵis·sə·ṯāh) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover Shame בּוּשָׁ֔ה (bū·šāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 955: Shame will cover all כָּל־ (kāl-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every their faces, פָּנִים֙ (pā·nîm) Noun - masculine plural Strong's 6440: The face and all וּבְכָל־ (ū·ḇə·ḵāl) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every their heads רָאשֵׁיהֶ֖ם (rā·šê·hem) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural Strong's 7218: The head will be shaved. קָרְחָֽה׃ (qā·rə·ḥāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7144: Baldness, bald spot Links Ezekiel 7:18 NIVEzekiel 7:18 NLT Ezekiel 7:18 ESV Ezekiel 7:18 NASB Ezekiel 7:18 KJV Ezekiel 7:18 BibleApps.com Ezekiel 7:18 Biblia Paralela Ezekiel 7:18 Chinese Bible Ezekiel 7:18 French Bible Ezekiel 7:18 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth (Ezek. 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