Micah 1:16
ContextNET © | Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; 1 shave your foreheads as bald 2 as an eagle, 3 for they are taken from you into exile. |
NIV © | Shave 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. |
NASB © | Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of the children of your delight; Extend your baldness like the eagle, For they will go from you into exile. |
NLT © | Weep, you people of Judah! Shave your heads in sorrow, for the children you love will be snatched away, and you will never see them again. Make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for your little ones will be exiled to distant lands. |
MSG © | Shave your heads in mourning over the loss of your precious towns. Go bald as a goose egg--they've gone into exile and aren't coming back. |
BBE © | Let your head be uncovered and your hair cut off in sorrow for the children of your delight: let the hair be pulled from your head like an eagle’s; for they have been taken away from you as prisoners. |
NRSV © | Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair for your pampered children; make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they have gone from you into exile. |
NKJV © | Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity. |
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NET © | Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; 1 shave your foreheads as bald 2 as an eagle, 3 for they are taken from you into exile. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “over the sons of your delight.” 2 tn Heb “make wide your baldness.” 3 tn Or “a vulture” (cf. NIV, TEV); CEV “a buzzard.” The Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) refers to the griffon vulture or eagle. |