Micah 1:16

Contemporary English Version 1995

Judah, shave your head as bald as a vulture and start mourning. Your precious children will be dragged off to a foreign country.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:12

When all of this happened, the Lord All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth.

Jeremiah 7:29

Shave your head bald and throw away the hair. Sing a funeral song on top of a barren hill. You people have made me angry, and I have abandoned you.

Job 1:20

When Job heard this, he tore his clothes and shaved his head because of his great sorrow. He knelt on the ground, then worshiped God

Amos 8:10

Your festivals and joyful singing will turn into sorrow. You will wear sackcloth and shave your heads, as you would at the death of your only son. It will be a horrible day.

Jeremiah 16:6

Rich and poor alike will die and be left unburied. No one will mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads.

Jeremiah 6:26

and attacks without warning. So mourn, my people, as though your only child had died. Wear clothes made of sackcloth and roll in the ash pile.”

Isaiah 15:2

Everyone in Dibon has gone up to the temple and the shrines to cry and weep. All of Moab is crying. Heads and beards are shaved because of what happened at Nebo and Medeba.

2 Kings 17:6

before capturing it in the ninth year of Hoshea's rule. The Assyrian king took the Israelites away to Assyria as prisoners. He forced some of them to live in the town of Halah, others to live near the Habor River in the territory of Gozan, and still others to live in towns where the Median people lived.

Deuteronomy 28:41

Even your children will be taken as prisoners of war.

Jeremiah 47:5

The Anakim who survive in Gaza and Ashkelon will mourn for you by shaving their heads and sitting in silence.

Amos 7:11

Here is what he is saying: ‘Jeroboam will be put to death, and the people will be taken to a foreign country.’ ”

Amos 7:17

Now, listen to what the Lord says about you: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will be killed in war, and your land will be divided among others. You will die in a country of foreigners, and the people of Israel will be dragged from their homeland.

Jeremiah 4:8

Then I told the people of Israel, “Put on sackcloth! Mourn and cry out, ‘The Lord is still angry with us.’ ”

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.