57 Heb “upon every loin [there is] sackcloth.” The word “all” is restored here before “loin” with a number of Hebrew and a number of versions. The words “in mourning” and “to show their sorrow” are not in the text. They have been supplied in the translation to give the average reader some idea of the significance of these acts. The actions referred to here were all acts that were used to mourn the dead (cf. Isa 15:2–3).

In other versions

“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.

Every head is shaved

and every beard cut off;

every hand is slashed

and every waist is covered with sackcloth.

Indeed, every head is bald and every beard is chopped short. On every hand is a gash and sackcloth around the waist.

The people shave their heads and beards in mourning. They slash their hands and put on clothes made of burlap.

For on every head is baldness,

and every beard is trimmed.

On all the hands, slashes,

and on the loins, sackcloth.

For every head shall be bald,

And every beard clipped:

Upon all the hands shall be cuttings,

And upon the loins sackcloth.

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