1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible

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Jeremiah 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.

Isaias 15:2.; Ezechiel 7:18.

Shaven, or "clipt," (Protestants; Haydock) as in mourning. --- Tied. Hebrew, "cut," Jeremias 16:6. (Calmet) --- Such signs of mourning were usual in those countries. The Romans let their hair grow. (Cicero, pro Sestio.) (Worthington)