So Hanun seized David’s envoys, shaved off half of each man’s beard,(A) cut off their garments at the buttocks,(B) and sent them away.

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17 Therefore the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion;
    the Lord will make their scalps bald.(A)

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22 And if you ask yourself,
    “Why has this happened to me?”(A)
it is because of your many sins(B)
    that your skirts have been torn off(C)
    and your body mistreated.(D)

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11 Pass by naked(A) and in shame,
    you who live in Shaphir.[a]
Those who live in Zaanan[b]
    will not come out.
Beth Ezel is in mourning;
    it no longer protects you.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:11 Shaphir means pleasant.
  2. Micah 1:11 Zaanan sounds like the Hebrew for come out.

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