These phrases are expounded in the beginning of the following verse, There shall be lamentation generally upon all the house-tops of Moab. Shaving of the hair, and clipping the beards, and cutting themselves, were rites and ceremonies of mourning used by these heathens.
Related Commentaries of Jeremiah 48:37
Jeremiah 48:37
37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped:j upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.