Verse 16
Micah 1:16
World English Bible
16
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!
Original Language Text
hebrew
קָרְחִ֣י וָ/גֹ֔זִּי עַל בְּנֵ֖י תַּעֲנוּגָ֑יִ/ךְ הַרְחִ֤בִי קָרְחָתֵ/ךְ֙ כַּ/נֶּ֔שֶׁר כִּ֥י גָל֖וּ מִמֵּֽ/ךְ
English Translation
I am bald and shaggy over the sons of your delight; your expanse is bald like an eagle, for they have uncovered from you.
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Chapter 1 Context
1
Yahweh’s word that came to Micah the Morashtite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of...
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2
Hear, you peoples, all of you.
Listen, O earth, and all that is therein:
and let the Lord Yahweh be...
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3
For, behold, Yahweh comes out of his place,
and will come down and tread on the high places of the e...
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4
The mountains melt under him,
and the valleys split apart,
like wax before the fire,
like waters tha...
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5
“All this is for the disobedience of Jacob,
and for the sins of the house of Israel.
What is the dis...
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6
Therefore I will make Samaria like a rubble heap of the field,
like places for planting vineyards;
a...
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7
All her idols will be beaten to pieces,
and all her temple gifts will be burned with fire,
and all h...
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8
For this I will lament and wail;
I will go stripped and naked;
I will howl like the jackals,
and moa...
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9
For her wounds are incurable;
for it has come even to Judah.
It reaches to the gate of my people,
ev...
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10
Don’t tell it in Gath.
Don’t weep at all.
At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
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11
Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame.
The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out.
The...
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12
For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good,
because evil has come down from Yahweh to the...
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13
Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish.
She was the beginning of sin to the d...
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14
Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath.
The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful t...
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15
I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah.
He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam....
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16
Shave your heads,
and cut off your hair for the children of your delight.
Enlarge your baldness like...