Jeremiah 48:37 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Every head shall be bald - (note, Jeremiah 47:5, "Baldness is come upon Gaza;" Isaiah 15:2-3).

Upon all the hands shall be cuttings - i:e., upon all the arms, in which such cuttings used to be made in token of grief (cf. Zech. 31:6).

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.