Bible Strands
Micah 1:11
Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Micah delivers a pronouncement of judgment to the inhabitants of Shaphir, Zaanan, and Beth-ezel as part of a sequential warning preceding the arrival of calamity at Jerusalem.
The words — The text records עִבְרִי ('ivri) as a command to pass on or depart, and עֶרְיָה־ בֹשֶׁת ('eryah-boshet) as the literal phrase for shameful nakedness.
The thread — This imagery of stripped vulnerability and forced displacement appears in Isaiah 20:4, Isaiah 16:2, and Isaiah 47:2.
Why it lands — It presents the immediate reality of lost protection and exposed shame, requiring the reader to confront the sudden removal of security without offering comfort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth–ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 20:4 so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.
- Isaiah 16:2 Like fluttering birds pushed out of the nest, so are the daughters of Moab at the fords of the Arnon:
- Isaiah 47:2 Take millstones and grind flour; remove your veil; strip off your skirt, bare your thigh, and wade through the streams.
- Jeremiah 13:22 And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
- Jeremiah 48:6 ‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’
- Jeremiah 48:9 Put salt on Moab, for she will be laid waste; her cities will become desolate, with no one to dwell in them.
- Ezekiel 16:37 therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.
- Ezekiel 23:29 They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity
- Micah 1:8 Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
- Nahum 3:5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.