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10 Don’t tell it in Gath.
    Don’t weep at all.
    At Beth Ophrah[a] I have rolled myself in the dust.
11 Pass on, inhabitant of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame.
    The inhabitant of Zaanan won’t come out.
    The wailing of Beth Ezel will take from you his protection.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth waits anxiously for good,
    because evil has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:10 Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”