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Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

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ASV

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

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

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וַיִּקְרָ֗אvai.yik.Ra'and he calledH7121 →
אֲדֹנָ֧י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֛הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
צְבָא֖וֹתtze.va.'otof hostsH6635 →
בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomin the dayH3117 →
הַה֑וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931 →
לִבְכִי֙liv.Khifor weepingH1065 →
וּלְמִסְפֵּ֔דu.le.mis.Pedand for wailingH4553 →
וּלְקָרְחָ֖הu.le.ka.re.Chahand for baldnessH7144 →
וְלַחֲגֹ֥רve.la.cha.Gorand for girding ofH2296 →
שָֽׂק׃SaksackclothH8242 →

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Joel 2:12“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”Micah 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.Joel 1:13Put 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.Jeremiah 4:8So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.”Esther 4:3In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.Psalms 137:4How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”Joel 1:8Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.Ezekiel 27:31They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. They will weep over you with anguish of soul and bitter mourning.Isaiah 3:24Instead 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.Matthew 9:15Jesus replied, “How can the guests of the bridegroom mourn while He is with them? But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; then they will fast.Revelation 11:3And I will empower my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.”James 5:1Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.Ecclesiastes 3:4a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,Amos 8:10I 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.2 Samuel 12:16David pleaded with God for the boy. He fasted and went into his house and spent the night lying in sackcloth on the ground.Jonah 3:6When word reached the king of Nineveh, he got up from his throne, took off his royal robe, covered himself with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.Ezra 9:3When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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