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10 Do not tell it in Gath,
    do not weep at all;
in Beth Ophrah,
    roll around in the dust.
11 Pass on your way,
    inhabitants of Shaphir, naked and ashamed;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
    have not come out.
The mourning of Beth Ezel
    has taken from you its foothold.
12 Indeed the inhabitants of Maroth
    wait anxiously for good,
because calamity has come down from the Lord
    to the gate of Jerusalem.

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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.

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