Matthew Poole and continuators on Micah 1:10

10 ¶ Declare ye it not at Gath , weep ye not at all : in the house of Aphrah roll thy self in the dust.

Do what you can to keep your grie[illegible: 1 letter]s to your selves, let them not be publick, that the Philistines your bitter Enemies should know how sad 'tis with you and re[illegible: 1 letter]oice at it, Gath was a principall City of the Philistines and though this onely is mentioned the rest are understood, such phrase you have, 2 Sam. 1. 20.

You that are of Israel or Iudah make no publick weeping, that your cryes and tears should inform your Enemies in Palestine how deplorable your state is, let not your griefs be their joyes.

We render it as a proper name of some City or Town, though of no great note, yet we meet with one. 1 Sam. 13.23. in the Tribe of Benjamine, a second we find in M[illegible: 1 letter]nasse[illegible: 1 letter]s lot, and was the place where Gideon's father dwelt, Iud. 6.11. these Towns were somewhat remote from the Philistines, and there the Prophet does direct them to weep with the greatest expressions of it, and to keep it private from the Philistines. Others account the word to be a common name denoting dust, and so give the sense in the house of d[illegible: 1 letter]st, roll thy self in d[illegible: 1 letter]st.

Or. I have rolled my self, viz. in compassion to the miserable I[illegible: 2 letters]aelites, or as a pattern to which they shall conform, so the word as written, but as by direction of the Masorets it is read, and as here 'tis rendred roll thy self, it directs and foretells, it foretells what they shall do at last, and directs what they should do at present. They shall be brought to fit, nay to wallow in the dust, and in foresight of this it would become them to sit in the dust now.

Marginal references: Or, dust.; Jer. 6.26.