Micah 1:16 - Revised Standard Version CI

¹⁶ Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Make yourself bald in mourning and cut off your hair for the children of your delight; enlarge your baldness as the eagle, for [your children] shall be carried from you into exile.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Make thee bald, and cut off thy hair for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Make yourself bald and cut off your hair because of your cherished children! Make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they have gone from you into exile.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Become bald and shaved for your delicate sons. Increase your baldness like the eagle. For they have been carried into captivity from you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

Micah 1:16 Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria captured Samaria, and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Job 1:20

Then Job arose, and rent his robe, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshiped.

Isaiah 15:2

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails. On every head is baldness, every beard is shorn;

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

Jeremiah 4:8

For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and wail; for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned back from us.”

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness has come upon Gaza, Ashkelon has perished. O remnant of the Anakim, how long will you gash yourselves?

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.’

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Amos 7:11

For thus Amos has said, ‘Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel must go into exile away from his land.’ ”

Amos 7:17

Therefore thus says the Lord: ‘Your wife shall be a harlot in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be parceled out by line; you yourself shall die in an unclean land, and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.’ ”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for they shall go into captivity.