(A)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go (B)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation (C)like the jackals,
    and mourning (D)like the ostriches.
(E)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

10 (F)Tell it not in (G)Gath;
    weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
    (H)roll yourselves in the dust.

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