Micah 1:16

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in sorrow for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they have been taken from you into exile.

Cross References

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of Armies called for weeping,  for wailing, for shaven heads, and for the wearing of sackcloth.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off the hair of your sacred vow  , and throw it away. Raise up a dirge on the barren heights,  for the Lord has rejected and abandoned the generation under his wrath.”

Job 1:20

Then Job stood up, tore  his robe, and shaved  his head. He fell to the ground and worshipped,

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cause everyone  to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make that grief like mourning for an only son and its outcome like a bitter day.

Jeremiah 16:6

‘Both great and small will die in this land without burial. No lament will be made for them, nor will anyone cut himself or  shave his head for them.

Jeremiah 6:26

My dear  people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in the dust. Mourn as you would for an only son, a bitter lament, for suddenly the destroyer  will come on us.

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon went up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails on Nebo and at   Medeba. Every head is shaved; every beard is chopped short.

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea,  the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He deported  the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, along the Habor (Gozan’s river), and in the cities of the Medes.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will be taken prisoner.

Jeremiah 47:5

Baldness  is coming to Gaza; Ashkelon will become silent. Remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?

Amos 7:11

for Amos has said this: “Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.” ’

Amos 7:17

Therefore, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will be a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, and your land will be divided up with a measuring line. You yourself will die on pagan   soil, and Israel will certainly go into exile from its homeland.

Jeremiah 4:8

Because of this, put on sackcloth; mourn and wail, for the Lord’s burning anger has not turned away from us.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water before the Lord’s presence. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger at the head of every street.