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16 Make yourself bald, cut off your hair,
    for the children whom you cherish;
Make yourself bald as a vulture,
    for they are taken from you into exile.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 1:16 Shaving the head was a sign of mourning; cf. Is 3:24; Am 8:10.

16 Shave(A) 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.(B)

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