Ezekiel 7:18
What does Ezekiel 7:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 7:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
KJV
King James Version · 1611They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they have girded on sackcloth, And covered them hath trembling, And unto all faces <FI>is<Fi> shame, And on all their heads--baldness.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them and shame shall be upon every face, and baldness upon all their heads.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they shall gird on sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
Context
v.17All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.
v.18This passage
v.19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be as an unclean thing; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels; because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
- Psalms 55:4
My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
- Jeremiah 48:37
For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
- Psalms 35:26
Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.
- Genesis 15:12
And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.
- Ezekiel 27:31
and they shall make themselves bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee in bitterness of soul with bitter mourning.
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