Micah 1:16 - New International Version (Anglicised)

¹⁶ Shave your head in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourself as bald as the vulture, for they will 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.

Micah 1:16 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 17:6

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. He settled them in Halah, in Gozan on the River Habor and in the towns of the Medes.

Job 1:20

At this, Job got up and tore his robe and shaved his head. Then he fell to the ground in worship

Isaiah 15:2

Dibon goes up to its temple, to its high places to weep; Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved and every beard cut off.

Isaiah 22:12

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

Jeremiah 16:6

‘Both high and low will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, and no-one will cut themselves or shave their head for the dead.

Jeremiah 4:8

So put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the Lord has not turned away from us.

Jeremiah 47:5

Gaza will shave her head in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. You remnant on the plain, how long will you cut yourselves?

Jeremiah 6:26

Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Jeremiah 7:29

‘ “Cut off your hair and throw it away; take up a lament on the barren heights, for the Lord has rejected and abandoned this generation that is under his wrath.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.

Amos 7:11

For this is what Amos is saying: ‘ “Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.” ’

Amos 7:17

‘Therefore this is what the Lord says: ‘ “Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword. Your land will be measured and divided up, and you yourself will die in a pagan country. And Israel will surely go into exile, away from their native land.” ’

Amos 8:10

I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Deuteronomy 28:41

You will have sons and daughters but you will not keep them, because they will go into captivity.