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For this I will lament and wail.
    I will go stripped and naked.
    I will howl like the jackals
    and mourn like the ostriches.
For her wounds are incurable;
    for it has come even to Judah.
It reaches to the gate of my people,
    even to Jerusalem.
10 Don’t tell it in Gath.
    Don’t weep at all.
    At Beth Ophrah[a] I have rolled myself in the dust.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:10 Beth Ophrah means literally “House of Dust.”