Micah 1:15-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁵People of Mareshah,^[a]
the Lord will send someone
    to capture your town.
Then Israel's glorious king
will be forced to hide
    in Adullam Cave.^[b]
¹⁶Judah, shave your head
as bald as a vulture
    and start mourning.
Your precious children^[c]
will be dragged off
    to a foreign country.

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Footnotes

1.15 Mareshah: Sounds something like the Hebrew word for “conqueror” and was only a few kilometers northeast of Lachish.
1.15 Adullam Cave: See the note at 1.14.
1.16 precious children: The towns mentioned in verses 10-15.