Micah 1:16
Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee. Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
Micah of Moresheth gave this word as prophet to Israel and to Judah in the days of Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah between 745 and 700 B.C. He was a younger contemporary of Isaiah who saw and felt the social wrongs of his age and sympathized with the common people. His message was one of wrath and warning and judgment against great social evils and the guilt of sin, the sins of the house of Israel and the transgressions of Jacob. It graphically set forth Jehovah coming forth out of His place amid awful convulsions of nature, with village after village seen destroyed, Samaria going down and desolation coming to the very gates of Jerusalem. Because of the sins of Israel, Zion was to be plowed as a field and Jerusalem to become heaps.
The command is to mourn over delicate children gone into captivity, shaving the head and making bald as a sign of grief. That baldness was to be enlarged as the eagle, whose extensive baldness pictures the depth of that mourning over the exiled children.