Bible verses about "baldness" | Thomson

²³ Then he went up thence to Baithel, and as he was going up he met in the way, little boys who had come out of the city, and who mocked him saying, Ascend bald head! Ascend!

⁵ You shall not shave the head to make it bald, for the dead. Nor shall they shave their beard, nor make gashes in their flesh.

¹⁶ Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty and have walked with outstretched neck and wanton eyes, trailing with them in their gait flowing robes, and moving in set pace with their feet; ¹⁷ therefore God will humble the princely daughters of Sion and the Lord will expose their form to view. ¹⁸ On that day the Lord will take away the finery of their attire, the cauls and the curls and the crescents, ¹⁹ the solitaire and the ornament of the brow, ²⁰ and the gorgeous wreathed tiar, and the necklaces and the bracelets, and the zone and the rings for the fingers, and the ornaments for the right arms, ²¹ and the earrings and the robes with purple borders, ²² and those the middle of which is purple, and the dresses worn at home, and the Laconian gauzes and cotton robes, ²³ and those of purple and scarlet and cotton, embroidered with gold and purple; and the summer sofas: ²⁴ and instead of perfumes there shall be ashes; and instead of a girdle thou shalt be girded with rushes; and instead of a golden headdress thou shalt have baldness, on the account of thy doings; and instead of the purple robe thou shalt gird on sackcloth.

³⁷ let them every where shave the whole head; and let the whole beard be shaven and all hands gashed; and let there be sackcloth on every loin

²³ Then he went up thence to Baithel, and as he was going up he met in the way, little boys who had come out of the city, and who mocked him saying, Ascend bald head! Ascend! ²⁴ And looking back upon them, he beheld them, and denounced a curse against them, in the name of the Lord. And behold there came two bears from the forest, and they tore forty two of the boys.

¹⁶ shave thy locks and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; lengthen out thy widowhood like an eagle, for they shall be carried from thee into captivity.

²⁴ and instead of perfumes there shall be ashes; and instead of a girdle thou shalt be girded with rushes; and instead of a golden headdress thou shalt have baldness, on the account of thy doings; and instead of the purple robe thou shalt gird on sackcloth.

⁴¹ And if his head shed its hair before, he is forehead bald, yet he is clean.