4 Then the mountains will melt under him;the valleys will split apart,like wax yielding to the fire,like waters poured down a slope.
5 All this is for the crime of Jacoband the sins of the house of Israel.Who is responsible for the crime of Jacob?Isn’t it Samaria?Who is responsible for the shrines of Judah?Isn’t it Jerusalem?
6 So I will make Samaria a pile of rubble in the open field,a place for planting vineyards.I will pour her stones into the valley;her foundations I will lay bare.
7 All her images will be beaten to pieces;all her wages will be burned;I will make all her idols worthless.Since she gathered them from the wages of a prostitute,they will again become wages of a prostitute.
8 On account of this, I will cry out and howl;I will go about barefoot and stripped.I will cry out like the jackals,and mourn like the ostriches.
9 Indeed, Zion has been weakened by her wounds!It has come as far as Judah;he has struck as far as the gate of my people,as far as Jerusalem.
10 In Gath tell it not; no need to weep there!In Beth-le-aphrah, roll yourself in the dust!