6. So I will make Samaria into a ruin in the countryside, planting places for a vineyard. I will hurl her stones into the valley and will lay bare her foundations.
7. All her images will be smashed, all her prostitute’s pay burned with fire, and all her idols I will make desolate. For from prostitute’s pay she collected them and to prostitute’s pay they will return.
8. Concerning this let me lament and howl. Let me walk barefoot and naked. I will make a howl like jackals and a mourning like ostriches.
9. For her wounds are incurable. For it has come up to Judah. It has reached the gate of my people— even up to Jerusalem!
10. Tell it not in Gath—weep not at all. At Beth-le-aphrah roll in the dust.
11. Pass on, you who dwell in Saphir— nakedness and shame— she who dwells in Zaanan will not come out. Wailing of Beth-ezel: He will take from you its standing-place.
12. For she who dwells in Maroth has languished for something good. For calamity has come down from Adonai to Jerusalem’s gate.
13. Harness the chariot to the steed, O inhabitant of Lachish! It was the beginning of sin for the Daughter of Zion— because in you were found the rebellions of Israel.
14. Therefore you will give parting gifts to Moresheth-gath—houses of Achzib as a deception to the kings of Israel.
15. Yet I will bring the possessor to you, inhabitant of Mareshah. The glory of Israel will come as far as Adullam.
16. Shave yourself bald, yes shear your hair for the children of your delight. Enlarge your bald spot like a vulture, for they went from you into exile.