Devine Scripture

Isaiah 22:12

Isaiah chapter 22 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Context

v.11ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago.

v.12This passage

v.13and, behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 1:20

    Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped;

  • Jonah 3:6

    And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

  • Nehemiah 8:9

    And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto Jehovah your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law.

  • Ecclesiastes 3:4

    a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

  • Ecclesiastes 3:11

    He hath made everything beautiful in its time: also he hath set eternity in their heart, yet so that man cannot find out the work that God hath done from the beginning even to the end.

  • 2 Chronicles 35:25

    And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations unto this day; and they made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.