God said to the people in Samaria and Jerusalem, I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and uncover her foundations. All her images shall be beaten to pieces, all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the hire of a harlot she gathered them, and to the hire of a harlot they shall return.

I will lament and wail, I will go stripped and naked. I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches. Her wound is incurable, and it has come to Judah, it has come to Judah, it has come to Judah, it has reached to the gate of my people, to Jerusalem.

Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all, in Bethleaphrah roll yourselves in the dust. Pass on your way, inhabitants of Shaphir, in nakedness and shame, the inhabitants of Zaanan do not come forth, the wailing of Bethezel shall take away from you its standing place.

The inhabitants of Maroth wait anxiously for good because evil has come down from the lord to the gate of Jerusalem. Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish, you were the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.

Therefore you shall give parting gifts to Moresheth Gath, the houses of Achzib shall be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel shall come to Adullam. Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair, for the children of your delight, make yourselves as bald as the eagle, for they shall go from you into exile.

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