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.
Cross-reference
In Jeremiah 47:5, Gaza shaves her head in mourning—the same ritual gesture seen here for Moab.
In Jeremiah 41:5, mourners from Shechem show the same customs: shaved beards, torn clothes, and self-cutting.
In Jeremiah 16:6, the same mourning practices—cutting oneself and shaving the head—are mentioned as forbidden during a different judgment.
Jeremiah 7:29 commands Israel to cut off hair as a sign of divine rejection — the same shaving act appears in Moab's mourning, showing a shared idiom of judgment.
Jeremiah 49:3 calls for sackcloth and lament over Ammon's ruin — parallel mourning imagery for neighboring nations facing similar judgment.
In Isaiah 15:3, sackcloth and public wailing accompany Moab's lament—matching the customs listed here.
In Micah 1:16, shaving the head is commanded as a mourning ritual for exile—same custom.
In Amos 8:10, God turns feasts into mourning with sackcloth and shaved heads—parallel judgment imagery.
In Ezekiel 27:31, mourners over Tyre shave their heads and wear sackcloth—the same rites.
In Ezekiel 7:18, sackcloth and shaved heads signal shame and terror during judgment on Israel.
In Isaiah 15:2, Moab's own mourning includes shaved heads and cut beards—identical to this verse.
In Isaiah 3:24, baldness and sackcloth replace beauty as signs of mourning and judgment.
In 1 Kings 18:28, Baal's prophets gash themselves with swords—same self-mutilation as Moab's mourning, showing pagan ritual patterns.
Leviticus 19:28 forbids the exact mourning practices described here—shaving and cutting—contrasting pagan customs with Israelite law.
Ezra 9:3 describes pulling hair from head and beard in grief — a nearly identical mourning gesture to Moab's baldness and shorn beards, now in a penitential context.
Leviticus 21:5 prohibits priests from making bald patches or cuts — Moab's mourning rites directly violate this priestly law, contrasting Israel's holy standard.
Leviticus 19:27 forbids Israel from cutting beard edges and rounding hair — the very mourning practices Moab executes here, highlighting a contrast between pagan and covenant conduct.
Genesis 37:34 has Jacob wearing sackcloth for mourning—the same garment of grief noted here among the Moabites.
Isaiah 37:1 has Hezekiah putting on sackcloth in grief—another use of sackcloth for mourning, like the Moabites here.
1 Chronicles 19:4 records forced beard shaving as humiliation — Moab's voluntary shaving in mourning shares the act but differs in purpose and agency.
2 Kings 6:30 depicts the king wearing sackcloth under his clothes in anguish—another instance of sackcloth as a sign of distress.
1 Kings 21:27 shows Ahab in sackcloth as a sign of repentance—the same clothing used here for mourning distress.