Verse 10

Don’t spread the news in Gath! Don’t shed even a single tear! In Beth Leaphrah roll about in mourning in the dust!

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 1:20 : 20 Don’t report it in Gath, don’t spread the news in the streets of Ashkelon, or the daughters of the Philistines will rejoice, the daughters of the uncircumcised will celebrate!
• Jer 6:26 : 26 So I said,“Oh, my dear people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with painful sobs as though you had lost your only child. For any moment now that destructive army will come against us.”
• Lam 3:29 : 29 Let him bury his face in the dust; perhaps there is hope.
• Amos 5:13 : 13 For this reason whoever is smart keeps quiet in such a time, for it is an evil time.
• Amos 6:10 : 10 When their close relatives, the ones who will burn the corpses, pick up their bodies to remove the bones from the house, they will say to anyone who is in the inner rooms of the house,“Is anyone else with you?” He will respond,“No one.” Then he will say,“Hush! Don’t invoke the LORD’s name!”
• Job 2:8 : 8 Job took a shard of broken pottery to scrape himself with while he was sitting among the ashes.
• Josh 18:23 : 23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,