Even the soldiers from Memphis and Tahpanhes have cracked your skulls, people of Israel.

So the sovereign master will afflict the foreheads of Zion’s women with skin diseases, the Lord will make the front of their heads bald.”

Of Gad he said: Blessed be the one who enlarges Gad. Like a lioness he will dwell; he will tear at an arm – indeed, a scalp.

Indeed God strikes the heads of his enemies, the hairy foreheads of those who persist in rebellion.