Isaiah 22:12

22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,

for shaved heads and sackcloth. ¹ 

Ezekiel 7:18

7:18 They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald. ² 

Micah 1:16

1:16 Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; ³ 

shave your foreheads as bald ⁴  as an eagle, ⁵ 

for they are taken from you into exile.

¹ tn Heb “for baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.” See the note at 15:2.

² tn Heb “baldness will be on their heads.”

³ tn Heb “over the sons of your delight.”

⁴ tn Heb “make wide your baldness.”

⁵ tn Or “a vulture” (cf. NIV, TEV); CEV “a buzzard.” The Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) refers to the griffon vulture or eagle.