10Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust.
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Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.
O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.
And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-16)We have here a long train of mourners attending the funeral of a ruined kingdom. I. The prophet is himself chief mourner ( Mic. 1:8 , 9 ): I will wail and howl; I will go stripped and naked , as a man distracted with grief. The prophets usually expressed their own grief for the public grievances, partly to mollify the predictions of them, and to make it appear that is was not out of ill-will that…
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