Micah 1:10 {9}
Good News Translation
Don't tell our enemies in Gath about our defeat; don't let them see you weeping. People of Beth Leaphrah, show your despair by rolling in the dust!

New Revised Standard Version
Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all; in Beth-leaphrah roll yourselves in the dust.

Contemporary English Version
Don't tell it in Gath! Don't even cry. Instead, roll in the dust at Beth-Leaphrah.

New American Bible
Do not announce it in Gath, do not weep at all; In Beth-leaphrah roll in the dust.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.

Declare.

2 Samuel 1:20 Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Amos 5:13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Amos 6:10 And a man's kinsman shall take him up, and shall burn him, that he may carry the bones out of the house; and he shall say to him that is in the inner rooms of the house: Is there yet any with thee?

Aphrah.

Joshua 18:23 And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,

Ophrah.

Job 2:8 And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill.

Jeremiah 6:26 Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Lamentations 3:29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

Context
Weeping and Mourning
9Therefore will I lament, and howl: I will go stript and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and a mourning like the ostriches. 10Because her wound is desperate, because it is come even to Juda, it hath touched the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.11Declare ye it not in Geth, weep ye not with tears: in the house of Dust sprinkle yourselves with dust.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 1:20
Tell it not in Geth, publish it not in the streets of Ascalon: lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

Jeremiah 6:26
Gird thee with sackcloth, O daughter of my people, and sprinkle thee with ashes: make thee mourning as for an only son, a bitter lamentation, because the destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

Micah 1:9
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