1:16 Shave your heads bald as you mourn for the children you love; 1
shave your foreheads as bald 2 as an eagle, 3
for they are taken from you into exile.
[1:16] 1 tn Heb “over the sons of your delight.”
[1:16] 2 tn Heb “make wide your baldness.”
[1:16] 3 tn Or “a vulture” (cf. NIV, TEV); CEV “a buzzard.” The Hebrew term נֶשֶׁר (nesher) refers to the griffon vulture or eagle.
