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Micah’s Great Sadness

I will be very sad about what will happen.
    I will go without sandals and clothes.
I will cry like a dog.[a]
    I will mourn like a bird.[b]
Samaria’s[c] wound cannot be healed.
    Her disease has spread to Judah.
It has reached the city gate of my people;
    it has spread all the way to Jerusalem.
10 Don’t tell it in Gath.[d]
    Don’t cry in Acco.[e]
Roll yourself in the dust
    at Beth Ophrah.[f]

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Footnotes

  1. Micah 1:8 dog Literally, “jackal,” a kind of wild dog.
  2. Micah 1:8 bird Literally, “ostrich,” a large bird.
  3. Micah 1:9 Samaria The capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel.
  4. Micah 1:10 Gath This is a wordplay. This name means “tell.”
  5. Micah 1:10 Acco This name means “cry.”
  6. Micah 1:10 Beth Ophrah This name means “house of dust.”

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