Micah 1:16
Shave your head in mourning 1 for the children who were your delight; 1 make yourselves as bald as the nesher (vulture); 1 for they are gone into the golus from thee.
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Deuteronomy 28:41Thou shalt father banim and banot, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into shevi (captivity, the golus).
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year + 17:6 722 B.C.E. of Hoshea, Melech Ashur took Shomron, and carried Yisroel away to Ashur, and placed them in Chalach and in Chavor by the river Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
Isaiah 3:16Moreover Hashem saith, 1 Because the Banot Tziyon are haughty, 1 and walk with stretched forth necks 1 and winking + 3:16 flirtatious eyes, 1 walking and tripping along as they go, 1 and making a tinkling with their feet; + 3:16 ankle rings 1
Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1
Jeremiah 4:8For this gird you with sackcloth, 1 lament and wail; 1 for the charon af Hashem 1 is not turned away from us.
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair, O Yerushalayim, and throw it away, 1 and take up a kinah (lamentation) on barren heights; 1 for Hashem hath rejected and abandoned 1 the dor evrato (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 →