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!


In Context

13 Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

14 Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth Gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.

15 I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.

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!

Micah 1:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Shave your heads in mourning for the children in whom you delight; make yourselves as bald as the vulture, for they will go from you into exile.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Make thee bald, and be polled for thy delicate children: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle: for they are carried into captivity from thee.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Make 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delights; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle, for they are gone into captivity from thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Make thee bald, and poll thee for the children of thy delight: enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:16Make bald and shave, for thy delightful sons, Enlarge thy baldness as an eagle, For they have removed from thee!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:16Make you bald, and poll you for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from you.