Jeremias 48:37
For every head shall be bald, and every beard shall be shaven: all hands shall be tied together, and upon every back there shall be haircloth.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Omne enim caput calvitium, et omnis barba rasa erit : in cunctis manibus colligatio, et super omne dorsum cilicium :
- Septuagint (Swete) shown from Jeremias 31:37
- πᾶσαν κεφαλὴν ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ ξυρηθήσονται, καὶ πᾶς πώγων ξυρηθήσεται, καὶ πᾶσαι χεῖρες κόψονται, καὶ ἐπὶ πάσης ὀσφύος σάκκος.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- כִּ֤י כָל רֹאשׁ֙ קָרְחָ֔ה וְכָל זָקָ֖ן גְּרֻעָ֑ה עַ֤ל כָּל יָדַ֨יִם֙ גְּדֻדֹ֔ת וְעַל מָתְנַ֖יִם שָֽׂק
Haydock's commentary
Shaven, or "clipt," (Protestants; Haydock) as in mourning.
Tied. Hebrew, "cut," chap. xvi. 6. (Calmet)
Such signs of mourning were usual in those countries. The Romans let their hair grow. (Cicero, pro Sestio.) (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.