KJV King James Version
Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
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Micah 1:10
Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
WEB World English Bible
Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
ASV American Standard Version
Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
In Gath tell ye not—in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.
Surrounding context — Micah 1
7 And all the graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered [it] of the hire of an harlot, and they shall return to the hire of an harlot.
8 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.
9 For her wound [is] incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, [even] to Jerusalem.
10 Declare ye [it] not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she [is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
בְּגַת֙H1661 · gatGathאַל־H408 · alnotתַּגִּ֔ידוּH5046 · na.gadto tellבָּכ֖וֹH1058 · ba.khahto weepאַל־H408 · alnotתִּבְכּ֑וּH1058 · ba.khahto weepבְּבֵ֣יתH1036 · bet le.aph.rahBeth-le-aphrahלְעַפְרָ֔הH1036 · bet le.aph.rahBeth-le-aphrahעָפָ֖רH6083 · a.phardustהִתְפַּלָּֽשִׁי׃H6428 · pa.lashto wallow
Cross-references
2 Samuel 1:20Tell [it] not in Gath, publish [it] not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, gird [thee] with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, [as for] an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.Amos 6:10And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that [is] by the sides of the house, [Is there] yet [any] with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the LORD.Joshua 18:23And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,Job 2:8And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it [is] an evil time.Lamentations 3:29He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
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