Jeremiah 48:37-39

International Children’s Bible

³⁷Everyone has a shaved head.
    Everyone’s beard is cut off.
Everyone’s hands are cut.
    Everyone wears rough cloth around his waist.^[a]
³⁸People are crying on every roof^[b] in Moab
    and in every public square.
There is nothing but sadness
    because I have broken Moab
    like a jar no one wants,” says the Lord.
³⁹“Moab is shattered! The people are crying!
    Moab turns away in shame!
People all around her make fun of her.
    The things that happened fill them with fear.”

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Footnotes

48:37 shaved head . . . waist The people did these things to show their sadness for those who had died.
48:38 roof In Bible times houses were built with flat roofs. The roof was used for drying things such as flax and fruit. And it was used as an extra room, as a place for worship and as a place to sleep in the summer.