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^2 (e)Hear, you peoples, all of you;^{[a]
    (f)}pay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,
and ^(g)let the Lord God be a witness against you,
    ^(h)the Lord from his holy temple.
³ For behold, ⁽ⁱ⁾the Lord is coming out of ^(j)his place,
    and will come down and ^(k)tread upon the high places of the earth.
⁴ And ^(l)the mountains will melt under him,
    and the valleys will split open,
like wax before the fire,
    like waters poured down a steep place.
⁵ All this is for ^(m)the transgression of Jacob
    and for the sins of the house of Israel.
⁽ⁿ⁾What is the transgression of Jacob?
    Is it not ^(o)Samaria?
And what is ^(p)the high place of Judah?
    Is it not Jerusalem?
⁶ Therefore I will make ^(q)Samaria ^(r)a heap in the open country,
    a place for planting vineyards,
and I will pour down her stones ^(s)into the valley
    and ^(t)uncover her foundations.
⁷ All ^(u)her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
    ^(v)all her wages shall be burned with fire,
    and all her idols I will lay waste,
for from ^(w)the fee of a prostitute she gathered them,
    and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

^8 (x)For this I will lament and wail;
    I will go ^(y)stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation ^(z)like the jackals,
    and mourning ^(aa)like the ostriches.
^9 (ab)For her wound is incurable,
    and it has come to Judah;
it has reached to the gate of my people,
    to Jerusalem.

^10 (ac)Tell it not in ^(ad)Gath;
    weep not at all;
in Beth-le-aphrah
    ^(ae)roll yourselves in the dust.
¹¹ Pass on your way,
    inhabitants of Shaphir,
    ^(af)in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
    do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
    shall take away from you its standing place.
¹² For the inhabitants of Maroth
    wait anxiously for good,
because disaster has come down ^(ag)from the Lord
    to the gate of Jerusalem.
¹³ Harness the steeds to the chariots,
    inhabitants of ^(ah)Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
    to the daughter of Zion,
for in you were found
    ^(ai)the transgressions of Israel.
¹⁴ Therefore you shall give parting gifts^[b]
    to ^(aj)Moresheth-gath;
the houses of ^(ak)Achzib shall be a deceitful thing
    to the kings of Israel.
¹⁵ I will again bring ^(al)a conqueror to you,
    inhabitants of ^(am)Mareshah;
the glory of Israel
    shall come to ^(an)Adullam.
^16 (ao)Make yourselves bald and cut off your hair,
    for the children of your delight;
^(ap)make yourselves as bald as the eagle,
    for they shall go from you into exile.