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Micah 1:10
Micah 1:10 is verse 10 of Micah chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
Gath sounds like the Hebrew for tell.
Beth-Leaphrah means house of dust.
King James Version
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
World English Bible
Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”
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Micah 1:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
9 For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself.
10 Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.
11 Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.
12 For the dwellers of Maroth pined for good, but calamity came down from the LORD, even to the gate of Jerusalem.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
2 Samuel 1:20Tell it not in Gath; proclaim it not in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, and the daughters of the uncircumcised exult.
Amos 5:13Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
Amos 6:10And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”
Joshua 18:23Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
Job 2:8And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.
Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
Lamentations 3:29Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.