6 “Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field,Places for planting a vineyard;I will pour down her stones into the valley,And I will uncover her foundations.
7 All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,And all her pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;All her idols I will lay desolate,For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,And they shall return to the pay of a harlot.”
8 Therefore I will wail and howl,I will go stripped and naked;I will make a wailing like the jackalsAnd a mourning like the ostriches,
9 For her wounds are incurable.For it has come to Judah;It has come to the gate of My people—To Jerusalem.
10 Tell it not in Gath,Weep not at all;In Beth AphrahRoll yourself in the dust.
11 Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of Shaphir;The inhabitant of Zaanan does not go out.Beth Ezel mourns;Its place to stand is taken away from you.
12 For the inhabitant of Maroth pined for good,But disaster came down from the LordTo the gate of Jerusalem.