Micah 1:16
Shave thine hair, and make thyself bald for thy delicate children; increase thy widowhood as an eagle; for thy people are gone into captivity from thee.
Brenton Septuagint
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Deuteronomy 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be thine, for they shall depart into captivity.
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Osee the king of the Assyrians took Samaria, and carried Israel away to the Assyrians, and settled them in Alae, and in Abor, near the rivers of Gozan, and in the mountains of the Medes.
Isaiah 3:16Thus saith the Lord, Because the daughters of Sion are haughty, and have walked with an outstretched neck, and with winking of the eyes, and motion of the feet, at the same time drawing their garments in trains, and at the same time sporting with their feet:
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and + 22:12 Gr. shaving.baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
Jeremiah 4:8For these things gird yourselves with sackclothes, and lament, and howl: for the anger of the Lord is not turned away from you.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on thy lips; for the Lord has reprobated and rejected the generation that does these things.
Matthew Henry on Micah 1:9-16
Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 743.) 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. 9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. 11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he… Read the whole commentary →