Micah 1:11
Leave, people of Shaphir, naked and ashamed. People of Zanaan don't come out. People of Beth Ezel mourn, for you have lost your support.
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In Context
10Don't mention it in Gath; don't weep at all. People of Beth-le-aphrah, roll in the dust.
Cross References
Isaiah 16:2The Moabite women at the fords of the Arnon are like birds fluttering around when their nest is destroyed.
Isaiah 47:2Go to work grinding flour with millstones. Remove your veil. Strip off your skirt, bare your legs, wade through rivers.
Jeremiah 48:6Run away! Save yourselves! Be like a scrawny tamarisk tree in the desert!
Ezekiel 16:37I'm going to bring together all the lovers you went to bed with, whether you loved them or hated them, and I will have them gather from everywhere around and I will strip you as they watch so they will see you totally naked.
Micah 1:8Because of this I will weep and wail, I will walk barefoot and naked, and will howl like jackals and mourn like owls.
Zechariah 14:5You will run away through this mountain valley for it will reach as far as Azal. You will run away like people did at the time of the earthquake during the reign of Uzzah, king of Judah. Then the Lord will come, accompanied by all his holy ones.
Matthew Henry on Micah 1:9-16
Judgments Predicted. ( b. c. 743.) 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. 9 For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Judah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem. 10 Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll thyself in the dust. 11 Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth-ezel; he… Read the whole commentary →