Micah 1:16

¹⁴ Therefore shalt thou give presents to Moresheth-gath: the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

¹⁵ Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

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.

Compare

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
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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Job 1:20
Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,
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Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
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Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Jeremiah 16:6
Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
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Deuteronomy 28:56–57
The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,
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Isaiah 39:6–7
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
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Lamentations 4:5–8
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
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