¹⁰ Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.

²⁰ Tell it not in Gath, Publish it not in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

²⁶ 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 destroyer shall suddenly come upon us.

²³ and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

⁸ And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself therewith; and he sat among the ashes.

²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

¹³ Therefore he that is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; for it is an evil time.

¹⁰ And when a man's uncle shall take him up, even he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is in the innermost parts of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No; then shall he say, Hold thy peace; for we may not make mention of the name of Jehovah.