Micah 1:16
Make bald and shave, for your delightful sons, || Enlarge your baldness as an eagle, || For they have removed from you!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15Yet I bring the possessor to you, O inhabitant of Mareshah, || The glory of Israel comes to Adullam.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:41You beget sons and daughters, but they are not with you, for they go into captivity;
2 Kings 17:6in the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Asshur has captured Samaria, and removes Israel to Asshur, and causes them to dwell in Halah, and in Habor, [by] the river Gozan, and [in] the cities of the Medes.
Isaiah 3:16“Because that daughters of Zion have been haughty, || And they walk stretching out the neck, || And deceiving [with] the eyes, || They go walking and mincing, || And they make a jingling with their feet,
Isaiah 22:12And the Lord calls, YHWH of Hosts, || In that day, to weeping and to lamentation, || And to baldness and to girding on of sackcloth,
Jeremiah 4:8For this, gird on sackcloth, lament and howl, || For the fierce anger of YHWH has not turned back from us.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your crown, and cast [it] away, || And lift up lamentation on high places, || For YHWH has rejected, || And He leaves the generation of His wrath.
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 →