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² Listen, all of you!
Earth and everything on it,
    pay close attention.
The Lord God accuses you
    from his holy temple.^[d]
3 And he will come down
to crush underfoot
    every pagan altar.
⁴ Mountains will melt
beneath his feet
    like wax beside a fire.
Valleys will vanish like water
    rushing down a ravine.
⁵ This will happen because of
the terrible sins of Israel,
    the descendants of Jacob.
Samaria has led Israel to sin,
and pagan altars at Jerusalem
    have made Judah sin.

⁶ So the Lord will leave Samaria
    in ruins—
merely an empty field
    where vineyards are planted.
He will scatter its stones
    and destroy its foundations.
⁷ Samaria's idols will be smashed,
    and the wages
of temple prostitutes^[e]
    will be destroyed by fire.
Silver and gold from those idols
will then be used
by foreigners
    as payment for prostitutes.

⁸ Because of this tragedy,^[f]
    I go barefoot and naked.
My crying and weeping
sound like howling wolves
    or ostriches.
⁹ The nation is fatally wounded.
Judah is doomed.
    Jerusalem will fall.

¹⁰ Don't tell it in Gath!
    Don't even cry.
Instead, roll in the dust
    at Beth-Leaphrah.^[g]
11 Depart naked and ashamed,
    you people of Shaphir.^[h]
The town of Bethezel^[i] mourns
because no one from Zaanan^[j]
    went out to help.^[k]
12 Everyone in Maroth^[l]
    hoped for the best,
but the Lord sent disaster
    down on Jerusalem.

¹³ Get the war chariots ready,
    you people of Lachish.^[m]
You led Jerusalem into sin,
    just as Israel did.^[n]
14 Now you will have to give
a going-away gift^[o]
    to Moresheth.^[p]
Israel's kings will discover
that they cannot trust
    the town of Achzib.^[q]

¹⁵ People of Mareshah,^[r]
the Lord will send someone
    to capture your town.
Then Israel's glorious king
will be forced to hide
    in Adullam Cave.^[s]
16 Judah, shave your head
as bald as a buzzard
    and start mourning.
Your precious children^[t]
will be dragged off
    to a foreign country.