Your turbans will be on your heads, and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn and you will not weep; but you will rot away in your guilty deeds, and you will groan to one another.
Parallel translations
- WEB Your tires shall be on your heads, and your shoes on your feet: you shall not mourn nor weep; but you shall pine away in your iniquities, and moan one toward another.
- KJV And your tires shall be upon your heads, and your shoes upon your feet: ye shall not mourn nor weep; but ye shall pine away for your iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
- BSB Your turbans will remain on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins, and you will groan among yourselves.
- NKJV Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet; you shall neither mourn nor weep, but you shall pine away in your iniquities and mourn with one another.
- NLT Your heads will remain covered, and your sandals will not be taken off. You will not mourn or weep, but you will waste away because of your sins. You will groan among yourselves for all the evil you have done.
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Quick answer
Keeping their turbans and sandals on, they will not weep but waste away under their guilt, groaning to one another. Their suppressed grief reflects deserved judgment.
Overview
The people will forgo public mourning and instead 'pine away' in their iniquities, an inward decay born of guilt and shock. The absence of normal lament signals that this judgment is not an undeserved tragedy to be mourned but a just consequence to be borne. Their quiet groaning to one another captures the heavy sorrow of a people facing the fruit of their sin.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Lev 26:39Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
- Ezek 33:10You, son of man, tell the house of Israel: Thus you speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are on us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?
- Ezek 4:17that they may lack bread and water, be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.
- Isa 59:11We all roar like bears, and moan bitterly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
- Ps 78:64Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.
- Job 27:15Those who remain of him shall be buried in death. His widows shall make no lamentation.
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