Micah 1:16
and cut off your hair
for the children of your pleasure.
Expand your baldness as the eagle,
for they will go into exile away from you.
Micah 1:16 — The New International Version (NIV)
16 Shave your head in mourning
for the children in whom you delight;
make yourself as bald as the vulture,
for they will go from you into exile.
Micah 1:16 — English Standard Version (ESV)
16 Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
for the children of your delight;
make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
for they shall go from you into exile.
Micah 1:16 — King James Version (KJV 1900)
16 Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children;
Enlarge thy baldness as the eagle;
For they are gone into captivity from thee.
Micah 1:16 — New Living Translation (NLT)
16 Oh, people of Judah, shave your heads in sorrow,
for the children you love will be snatched away.
Make yourselves as bald as a vulture,
for your little ones will be exiled to distant lands.
Micah 1:16 — The New King James Version (NKJV)
16 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.
Micah 1:16 — New Century Version (NCV)
16 Cut off your hair to show you are sad
for the children you love.
Make yourself bald like the eagle,
because your children will be taken away to a foreign land.
Micah 1:16 — American Standard Version (ASV)
16 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 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)
16 Make 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.
Micah 1:16 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
16 Shave your head in mourning for the children you love.
Make yourselves as bald as vultures
because your children will be taken from you into exile.
Micah 1:16 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
16 Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair
in sorrow for your precious children;
make yourselves as bald as an eagle,
for they have been taken from you into exile.
Micah 1:16 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
16 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.
Micah 1:16 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)
16 The children you enjoy so much
will be taken away as prisoners.
So shave your heads and sob.
Make them as bare as the head of a vulture.
Micah 1:16 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)
16 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.