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Micah 1:10

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1:10Don’t spread the news in Gath!47

Don’t shed even a single tear!48

In Beth Leaphrah sit in the dust!49

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Footnotes

  1. 47 Heb “Tell it not in Gath.” The Hebrew word for “tell” (נָגַד, nagad) sounds like the name of the city, Gath (גַּת, gat).
  2. 48 The Hebrew infinitive absolute before the negated jussive emphasizes the prohibition.
  3. 49 The translation assumes a masculine plural imperative. If one were to emend בְּבֵית (bévet) to בֵית (vet), Beth Leaphrah would then be the addressee and the feminine singular imperative (see Qere) could be retained, “O Beth Leaphrah, sit in the dust.” Heb “roll about in mourning in the dust”; or “wallow about in mourning in the dust.” The verb פָּלַשׁ (palash, “roll about in mourning [in dust]”; פלשׁ) is figurative (metonymy) for sitting as an outward sign of mourning. To sit in the dust was an outward sign of mourning. The name Beth Leaphrah means “house of dust.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Tell it not in Gath;

weep not at all;

in Beth-le-aphrah

roll yourselves in the dust.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Tell it not in Gath;

weep not at all.

In Beth Ophrah

roll in the dust.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Don’t announce it in Gath,

don’t weep at all.

Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah.

NLTNew Living Translation

Don’t tell our enemies in Gath;

don’t weep at all.

You people in Beth-leaphrah,

roll in the dust to show your despair.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Do not tell it in Gath;

you must not weep at all.

In Beth-le-Aphrah

roll yourself in dust.

KJV 1900King James Version

Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all:

In the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.