¹⁰ Don't tell it in Gath, Don't weep at all. At Beth Ophrah{Beth Ophrah means literally "House of Dust."} I have rolled myself in the dust.

²⁰ Don't tell it in Gath, Don't publish it in the streets of Ashkelon; Lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, Lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

²⁶ Daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself in ashes: make you mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; for the destroyer shall suddenly come on us.

²³ and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

⁸ He took for himself a potsherd to scrape himself with, 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 who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time; For it is an evil time.

¹⁰ "When a man's relative carries him, even he who burns him, to bring bodies out of the house, and asks him who is in the innermost parts of the house, 'Is there yet any with you?' And he says, 'No;' then he will say, 'Hush! Indeed we must not mention the name of Yahweh.'