8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons and mourning as the owls.
9 For her wound is painful, for it is come unto Judah; it is come unto the gate of my people, even to Jerusalem.
10 Do not declare it in Gath, weep little; roll thyself in the dust for the house of Aphrah.
11 Pass away naked with shame, thou inhabitant of Saphir: the inhabitant of Zaanan did not come forth in the mourning of Bethezel; he shall receive of you for his lateness.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth was pained because of good; therefore evil came down from the Lord unto the gate of Jerusalem.
13 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, hitch the chariot to dromedaries: for thou wert the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion, for in thee the rebellions of Israel were invented.
14 Therefore shalt thou give gifts to Moreshethgath; the houses of Achzib shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.