Micah 1:16

God's Word

Shave your head in mourning for the children you love. Make yourselves as bald as vultures because your children will be taken from you into exile.

Cross References

2 Kings 17:6

In Hoshea’s ninth year as king of Israel, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and took the Israelites to Assyria as captives. He settled them in Halah, along the Habor River in Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

Job 1:20

Job stood up, tore his robe in grief, and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground and worshiped.

Isaiah 15:2

The people of Dibon go to the temple, to the worship sites, to cry. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved bald, and every beard is cut off.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Almighty Lord of Armies will call for crying and for mourning, for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth.

Jeremiah 16:6

“Old and young alike will die in this land. No one will mourn for them or bury them. No one will cut his own body or shave his own head for them.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, mourn, and cry because the Lord’s burning anger hasn’t turned away from us.

Jeremiah 47:5

Gaza will shave its head in mourning. Ashkelon will be destroyed. How long will you cut yourselves, you people left on the plains?

Jeremiah 6:26

Wear sackcloth, and roll around in ashes, my people. Mourn as if you have lost your only child, and cry bitterly. The destroyer will suddenly attack us.

Jeremiah 7:29

“Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, because in his anger the Lord has rejected and abandoned the people of this generation.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up! Cry out at night, every hour on the hour. Pour your heart out like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him ⌞in prayer⌟ for the life of your little children who faint from hunger at every street corner.”

Amos 7:11

Amos says that Jeroboam will be killed with a sword and that Israel cannot avoid being taken from its land into exile.”

Amos 7:17

“However, this is what the Lord says: Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will be killed with swords. Your land will be surveyed and divided up, and you will die in an unclean  land. Israel cannot avoid being taken from its land into exile.”

Amos 8:10

I will turn your festivals into funerals and all your songs into funeral songs. I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist and shave everyone’s head. I will make that day seem like a funeral for an only child, and its end will be bitter.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will have sons and daughters, but you won’t be able to keep them because they will be taken as prisoners of war.