Micah 1:8
Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
Note Or a serpent or a dragon
Note Literally like daughters of an ostrich or like daughters of an owl
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
Note owls: Heb. daughters of the owl
For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.
For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- I will wail
- Isaiah 16:9; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 22:4; Jeremiah 4:19; Jeremiah 9:1, 10, 19; Jeremiah 48:36–39
- I will go
- Isaiah 20:2–4
- a wailing
- Job 30:29; Psalm 102:6