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!
11 Pass by (for your sake), inhabitants of Shaphir!In nakedness and shame she will not go out, inhabitants of Zaanan.The cry of Beth-ezelwill take away from you any place to stand.
12 How she longs for good, inhabitants of Maroth!Calamity has come down from the Lord to the gate of Jerusalem.