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Mic. 1:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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Lam. 4:5‑8• ⁵They that fed daintily perish in the streets;{HR}They who were brought up on scarlet embrace dunghills.
⁶For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,{HR}That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
⁷Her Nazarites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk;{HR}They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their cutting (shape) of sapphire.
⁸Their aspect is darker than dusk, they are not known in the streets;{HR}Their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is dried up like a stick. (Lam. 4:5‑8)

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bald.

Job 1:20• ²⁰And Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell upon the ground, and worshipped, (Job 1:20)

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Isa. 15:2• ²He is gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep; Moab howleth over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads [is] baldness, every beard is cut off. (Isa. 15:2)

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Isa. 22:12• ¹²And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; (Isa. 22:12)

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Jer. 6:26• ²⁶O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us. (Jer. 6:26)

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Jer. 7:29• ²⁹{i}Cut off thy hair, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.{/i} (Jer. 7:29)

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Jer. 16:6• ⁶Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried; neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them. (Jer. 16:6)

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Amos 8:10• ¹⁰{i}And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.{/i} (Amos 8:10)

thy delicate.

Deut. 28:56‑57• ⁵⁶{i}The eye of the tender and luxurious woman in thy midst who would not attempt to set the sole of her foot upon the ground from luxuriousness and from tenderness, shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and her son, and her daughter,{/i}
⁵⁷{i}because of her afterbirth which hath come out between her feet, and her children whom she shall bear; for she shall secretly eat them for want of everything in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.{/i} (Deut. 28:56‑57)

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Isa. 3:16‑26• ¹⁶And Jehovah saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks, and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
¹⁷therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and Jehovah will discover their secret parts.
¹⁸In that day the Lord will take away the ornament of anklets, and the networks, and the crescents,
¹⁹the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
²⁰the head-tires, and the ankle-chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets,
²¹the rings, and the nose-jewels,
²²the festival-robes and the mantles, and the shawls, and the bags ,
²³the mirrors, and the fine linen, and the turbans, and the flowing veils.
²⁴And it shall come to pass, instead of sweet spices there shall be rottenness and instead of a girdle, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a stomacher, a girding of sackcloth; branding instead of beauty.
²⁵Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
²⁶And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she, stripped , shall sit upon the ground. (Isa. 3:16‑26)

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Lam. 4:5‑8• ⁵They that fed daintily perish in the streets;{HR}They who were brought up on scarlet embrace dunghills.
⁶For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,{HR}That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
⁷Her Nazarites were brighter than snow, they were whiter than milk;{HR}They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their cutting (shape) of sapphire.
⁸Their aspect is darker than dusk, they are not known in the streets;{HR}Their skin cleaveth to their bones, it is dried up like a stick. (Lam. 4:5‑8)

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Deut. 28:41• ⁴¹{i}Sons and daughters shalt thou beget, but thou shalt not have them to be with thee; for they shall go into captivity.{/i} (Deut. 28:41)

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2 Kings 17:6• ⁶{i}In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.{/i} (2 Kings 17:6)

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Isa. 39:6‑7• ⁶Behold, days come, when all that [is] in thy house, and [that] which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith Jehovah.
⁷And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, whom thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. (Isa. 39:6‑7)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

JND Translation Notes

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Or "vulture."

W. Kelly Translation

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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.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)