Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth. New Living Translation At that time the Lord, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, called you to weep and mourn. He told you to shave your heads in sorrow for your sins and to wear clothes of burlap to show your remorse. English Standard Version In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth; Berean Standard Bible On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. King James Bible And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: New King James Version And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. New American Standard Bible Therefore on that day the Lord GOD of armies called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth. NASB 1995 Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth. NASB 1977 Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts, called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth. Legacy Standard Bible Therefore in that day Lord Yahweh of hosts called you to weeping, to wailing, To shaving the head, and to wearing sackcloth. Amplified Bible Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning, To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation]. Christian Standard Bible On that day the Lord GOD of Armies called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth. Holman Christian Standard Bible On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping, for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth. American Standard Version And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: Aramaic Bible in Plain English And LORD JEHOVAH, God of Hosts, called in that day to weeping and to mourning and to tearing out hair and to putting on of sackcloth Brenton Septuagint Translation And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth: Contemporary English Version When all of this happened, the LORD All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth. Douay-Rheims Bible And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: English Revised Version And in that day did the Lord, the LORD of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: GOD'S WORD® Translation On that day the Almighty LORD of Armies will call for crying and for mourning, for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth. Good News Translation The Sovereign LORD Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth. International Standard Version On that day the Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving heads and wearing sackcloth. JPS Tanakh 1917 And in that day did the Lord, the GOD of hosts, call To weeping, and to lamentation, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; Literal Standard Version And the Lord calls, YHWH of Hosts, | In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, | And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth, Majority Standard Bible On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. New American Bible On that day the Lord, the GOD of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth. NET Bible At that time the sovereign master, the LORD who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth. New Revised Standard Version In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and putting on sackcloth; New Heart English Bible In that day the LORD of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for shaved heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth. Webster's Bible Translation And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: World English Bible In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth; Young's Literal Translation And call doth the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth, Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Valley of Vision…11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago. 12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. 13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”… Cross References Isaiah 3:24 Instead 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. Isaiah 26:10 Though grace is shown to the wicked man, he does not learn righteousness. In the land of righteousness he acts unjustly and fails to see the majesty of the LORD. Isaiah 29:1 Woe to you, O Ariel, the city of Ariel where David camped! Year upon year let your festivals recur. Isaiah 32:11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists. Isaiah 58:3 "Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?" "Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers. Jeremiah 4:8 So put on sackcloth, mourn and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us." Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.' Treasury of Scripture And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: call 2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations. Nehemiah 8:9-12 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, and the Levites that taught the people, said unto all the people, This day is holy unto the LORD your God; mourn not, nor weep. For all the people wept, when they heard the words of the law… Nehemiah 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea; to baldness Isaiah 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied. Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, Jump to Previous Almighty Armies Baldness Clothing Cries Cutting Dressing Girding Hair Head Hosts Lamentation Mourning Putting Sackcloth Sorrow Tear Wail Wailing Wearing Weep WeepingJump to Next Almighty Armies Baldness Clothing Cries Cutting Dressing Girding Hair Head Hosts Lamentation Mourning Putting Sackcloth Sorrow Tear Wail Wailing Wearing Weep WeepingIsaiah 22 1. The prophet laments the invasion of Jerusalem8. He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy 15. He prophesies Shebna's deprivation 20. And the substitution of Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ. (12) To weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness . . .--National danger, Isaiah adds, should call to a national repentance in its outward manifestations, like the fast described in Joel 2 "Baldness,' produced by the tearing of the hair in extreme grief, took its place naturally, with weeping and sackcloth, in those manifestations.Verse 12. - In that day. The day alluded to in ver. 7, when the choice valleys in the neighborhood of Jerusalem were first seen to be full of a hostile soldiery, and the Assyrian horsemen were observed drawing themselves up opposite the gates. Such a sight constituted an earnest call upon the people for immediate repentance. Baldness (comp. Isaiah 15:2; Micah 1:16; Amos 8:10). It has been said that "baldness" was forbidden by the Law (Cheyne); but this is not so, absolutely. Baldness was wholly forbidden to the priests (Leviticus 21:5; comp. Ezekiel 44:20); and certain peculiar modes of shaving the hair, the beard, and the eyebrows, practiced by idolatrous nations, were prohibited to all the people (Leviticus 19:27; Deuteronomy 14:2). But such shaving of the head as was practiced by Job (Job 1:20) and other pious men, was not forbidden to laymen, any more than the wearing of sackcloth. It was regarded as a natural mode of exhibiting grief. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew On thatהַה֑וּא (ha·hū) Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are day בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3117: A day the Lord אֲדֹנָ֧י (’ă·ḏō·nāy) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 136: The Lord GOD יְהוִ֛ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3069: YHWH of Hosts צְבָא֖וֹת (ṣə·ḇā·’ō·wṯ) Noun - common plural Strong's 6635: A mass of persons, reg, organized for, war, a campaign called וַיִּקְרָ֗א (way·yiq·rā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read for weeping לִבְכִי֙ (liḇ·ḵî) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1065: A weeping, a dripping and wailing, וּלְמִסְפֵּ֔ד (ū·lə·mis·pêḏ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4553: A lamentation for shaven heads וּלְקָרְחָ֖ה (ū·lə·qā·rə·ḥāh) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7144: Baldness, bald spot and the wearing וְלַחֲגֹ֥ר (wə·la·ḥă·ḡōr) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 2296: To gird, gird on, gird oneself of sackcloth. שָֽׂק׃ (śāq) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 8242: A mesh, coarse loose cloth, sacking, a bag Links Isaiah 22:12 NIVIsaiah 22:12 NLT Isaiah 22:12 ESV Isaiah 22:12 NASB Isaiah 22:12 KJV Isaiah 22:12 BibleApps.com Isaiah 22:12 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 22:12 Chinese Bible Isaiah 22:12 French Bible Isaiah 22:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 22:12 In that day the Lord Yahweh (Isa Isi Is) |