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10 “Don’t discuss it in Gath![a]
    Don’t cry bitterly in Akim![b]
        Roll in the ashes, Beth-leaphrah!
11 Run away, you residents of Shaphir,
    displaying your shameful nakedness.
Don’t come out, you residents of Zaanan![c]
    Your firm standing will disappear as Beth-ezel mourns.
12 Even though the inhabitants of Maroth long for success,
    nevertheless evil descended from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:10 A city in Philistia
  2. Micah 1:10 So LXX; MT reads Don’t cry at all
  3. Micah 1:11 A city of Judah