Sinai LogoSinai

Micah 1:16

World English Bible

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!

Read all of Micah 1Open in the Sinai app

Micah 1:16 in other translations

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.

Micah 1:16 · American Standard Version

Micah 1:16 in context

  1. 14Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath.
    The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
  2. 15I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah.
    He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
  3. 16Shave 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!