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Ezekiel 7:18

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18 They shall put on sackcloth, horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.
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Ezekiel 7:18 Meaning and Commentary

Ezekiel 7:18

They shall also gird [themselves] with sackcloth
As a token of mourning, ( 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, ( Deuteronomy 14:1 ) .

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Ezekiel 7:18 In-Context

16 If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity.
17 All hands shall grow feeble, all knees turn to water.
18 They shall put on sackcloth, horror shall cover them. Shame shall be on all faces, baldness on all their heads.
19 They shall fling their silver into the streets, their gold shall be treated as unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.
20 From their beautiful ornament, in which they took pride, they made their abominable images, their detestable things; therefore I will make of it an unclean thing to them.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.