15 I will bring a conqueror against you
    who live in Mareshah.[a](A)
The nobles of Israel
    will flee to Adullam.(B)
16 Shave(C) 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.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:15 Mareshah sounds like the Hebrew for conqueror.

15 Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

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.

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