24 Instead of xperfume there will be rottenness;
and instead of a ybelt, a rope;
and instead of zwell-set hair, abaldness;
and instead of a rich robe, a bskirt of sackcloth;
and cbranding instead of beauty.
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Esther 2:12
Now when the turn came for each young woman to go in to King Ahasuerus, after being twelve months under the regulations for the women, since this was the regular period of their beautifying, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with spices and ointments for women—
Proverbs 31:24
She makes linen garments and sells them;
she delivers sashes to the merchant.
1 Peter 3:3
Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—
Isaiah 15:2
He has gone up to the temple, and to Dibon,
to the high places to weep;
over Nebo and over Medeba
Moab wails.
On every head is baldness;
every beard is shorn;
Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord GOD of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
Ezekiel 27:31
they make themselves bald for you
and put sackcloth on their waist,
and they weep over you in bitterness of soul,
with bitter mourning.
Amos 8:10
I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on every waist
and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Micah 1:16
Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.
Isaiah 15:3
in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
Genesis 37:34
Then Jacob tore his garments and put sackcloth on his loins and mourned for his son many days.
Lamentations 2:10
The elders of the daughter of Zion
sit on the ground in silence;
they have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth;
the young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
Leviticus 19:28
You shall not make any cuts on your body for the dead or tattoo yourselves: I am the LORD.
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