John Gill's Exposition on Ezekiel 7:18

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth, &c.] As a token of mourning, (<013734>Genesis 37:34); and horror shall cover them: either the horror of a guilty conscience, or the perpetual dread and terror of the enemy: and shame [shall be] upon all faces; because of their sins and transgressions, which they shall now be convinced of; or because of their desolate condition, their sins had brought them into: and baldness upon all their heads; through the plucking off of the hair of their heads in their distress; for to make baldness as a token of mourning for the dead was forbidden the Jews, (<051401>Deuteronomy 14:1).

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