and baldnesse upon all their heads] According to the custome of plucking off, or shaving off ones haire, in token of great griefe, though God had forbidden it, Deuteronomy 14:1. See Isaiah 3:24. &15. 2, 3. Jeremiah 48:37. Ezekiel 27:31. Mich. 1. 16. Amos 8:10.