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Baldness is visited upon Gaza,(A)
    Ashkelon is reduced to silence;
Ashdod, remnant of their strength,
    how long will you gash yourself?[a]

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  1. 47:5 Baldness…gash yourself: close-cropped hair, silence, and ritual slashing of the body express mourning and grief and here represent the mourner’s awareness that chaos has overcome order (cf. 41:5).

Daughter Dibon has gone up
    to the high places to weep;
Over Nebo and over Medeba
    Moab is wailing.
Every head is shaved,
    every beard sheared off.[a](A)
In the streets they wear sackcloth,
    and on the rooftops;
In the squares
    everyone wails, streaming with tears.(B)

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  1. 15:2 Shaved…sheared off: traditional signs of grief.

18 (A)They put on sackcloth, horror clothes them; shame is on all their faces, all their heads are shaved bald.[a]

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  1. 7:18 Shaved bald: shaving the head was a sign of mourning.