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Micah’s Great Sadness

I will ·moan and cry [mourn and wail] because of this evil,
    going around barefoot and naked.
I will ·cry loudly [wail] like ·the wild dogs [jackals]
    and ·make sad sounds [moan] like the ·owls [or ostriches] do,
because Samaria’s wound ·cannot be healed [is incurable].
    It ·will spread [or has spread] to Judah;
it ·will reach [or has reached] the city gate of my people [C where the city’s affairs were conducted],
    all the way to Jerusalem.
10 Don’t tell it in Gath [C sounds like Hebrew for “tell”; Gath and the cities in this list were in Assyria’s path of destruction in 701 bc].
    Don’t cry ·in Acco [or at all; C the Hebrew for “cry” sounds like Acco].
Roll in the dust
    at Beth Ophrah [C “house of dust”].

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