Micah 1:16

¹⁴ Therefore, send farewell gifts to Moresheth-gath; the houses of Achzib will prove deceptive to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵ I will again bring a conqueror against you, O dweller of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
KJV: Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
WEB: Shave your heads, and cut off your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your baldness like the vulture, for they have gone into captivity from you!
ASV: 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.
DARBY: Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.
BLB: Make yourself bald and shear [your head] over the children of your delight; enlarge your baldness like an eagle, for they will go into exile away from you.

ÅB: Gjør deg skallet, klipp håret av
i sorg over barna dine, de som var din lyst!
Gjør hodet ditt så skallet som gribben,
for de er ført i landflyktighet fra deg.
[^1]: 2 Sam 1,20.
[^2]: Vers 10–15 leker med stedsnavnene på hebraisk: Gat / «forkynn»; Bet-Leafra / «støv»; Sjafir / «skjønn»; Sa'anan / «gå ut»; Marot / «bitterhet»; Lakis / «hest»; Aksib / «svik»; Maresa / «arving».
[^3]: I landflyktighet.
[^4]: Jer 6,25.
OTB: Barber deg skallet, klipp av håret,
For barna du har glede av;
Utvid din skallethet som ørnen,
For de vil gå fra deg i eksil.
B1930: Gjør dig skallet, klipp håret vekk for dine barns skyld, de som var din lyst! Gjør ditt hode så skallet som gribbens, for de er ført bort fra dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 22:12
On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
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Job 1:20
Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,
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Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
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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 it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
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Jeremiah 16:6
“Both great and small will die in this land. They will not be buried or mourned, nor will anyone cut himself or shave his head for them.
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Deuteronomy 28:56–57
The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter
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Isaiah 39:6–7
The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left, says the LORD.
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Lamentations 4:5–8
Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.
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