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10 Don’t tell our enemies in Gath[a];
    don’t weep at all.
You people in Beth-leaphrah,[b]
    roll in the dust to show your despair.
11 You people in Shaphir,[c]
    go as captives into exile—naked and ashamed.
The people of Zaanan[d]
    dare not come outside their walls.
The people of Beth-ezel[e] mourn,
    for their house has no support.
12 The people of Maroth[f] anxiously wait for relief,
    but only bitterness awaits them
as the Lord’s judgment reaches
    even to the gates of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:10a Gath sounds like the Hebrew term for “tell.”
  2. 1:10b Beth-leaphrah means “house of dust.”
  3. 1:11a Shaphir means “pleasant.”
  4. 1:11b Zaanan sounds like the Hebrew term for “come out.”
  5. 1:11c Beth-ezel means “adjoining house.”
  6. 1:12 Maroth sounds like the Hebrew term for “bitter.”

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