John Trapp on Micah 1:10
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Verſe 10. Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all,] ſc. in their ſight and hearing, (though at home, weep your fill, verſe 8.) leſt the daughters of thoſe uncircumciſed triumph, 2 Sam. 1.20. leſt out of your tragedies they compoſe comedies; and ye become their muſick, whileſt they revel in your ruines, and make themſelves merry in your miſery.
In the houſe of Aphrah, roll thy ſelf in the duſt.] An elegant Agnomination in the original: q. d. Duſt thy ſelf in the houſe of duſt. Aphrah had its name from its duſtineſſe; as Paris is called Lutetia à luto, from its dirtineſſe: and as Hiram called the twenty cities of Galilee given him by Solomon, Cabul, that is dirty, or diſpleaſing, 1 King. 9.13. Fitly was this city called Aphrah, or Duſty, ſaith the Prophet: for it ſhall be reduced to duſt, and the inhabitants occaſioned to roll themſelves in the duſt, in token of extreme ſorrow. See Lam. 2.10. Some think Aphrah is put for Ephraim: others, better underſtand it for a particular city; either that in the tribe of Manaſſeh, Gideons city, Judg. 6.11. or that other in the tribe of Benjamin, Joſh. 18.23. not far from Jeruſalem.
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