“I will lament!
I will wail!
I will go barefoot!
I will go naked!
I will make lamentations
Like the jackals!
I will mourn
Like the ostriches!
Her wound is incurable.
It has come to Judah.
It has reached
To the gate
Of my people,
To Jerusalem.”
Next Micah lamented and wailed about the countryside around Jerusalem. Micah was going to go barefooted and naked in his lamentation, just like the jackals or the ostriches that put their head in the sand. This was an incurable wound to Judah that had reached the gates of Jerusalem, the holy people.
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