Tell it not in Gath, and tell it not as glad tidings in the streets of Ashkelon, lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

For go to the isles of Kittim, and see; and send to Kedar, and observe accurately, and see if such things have been done;

if the nations will change their gods, though they are not gods: but My people have changed their glory, [for that] from which they shall not be profited.

For thus says the Lord to Jacob: Rejoice, and exult over the head of the nations: make proclamation, and praise. Say, The Lord has delivered His people, the remnant of Israel.

They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My firstborn.

Proclaim [it] at Migdol, and declare [it] at Memphis. Say, Stand up, and prepare; for the sword has devoured your yew tree.

Proclaim among the Gentiles, and cause the tidings to be heard, and suppress [them] not. Say, Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded; the fearless, the luxurious Merodach is delivered up.

And I will destroy the inhabitants out of Azotus, and a tribe shall be cut off from Ashkelon, and I will stretch out My hand upon Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says the Lord.

And the Philistines took the ark of God, and brought it from Ebenezer to Azotus.

Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us, that we may drink.

Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and that trust in the mountain of Samaria; they have gathered [the harvest of] the heads of the nations, and they have gone in themselves.

For you have planted vineyards on the mountains of Samaria. Plant, and praise.

But your grapes and your fruits, O mountains of Israel, shall My people eat; for they are hoping to come.

And I will make them a nation in My land, even on the mountains of Israel; and they shall have one prince; and they shall be two nations no longer, neither shall they be divided anymore into two kingdoms;

and all the nations shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land? What [is] this great fierceness of anger?

and they went and served other gods which they knew not, neither did He assign [them] to them.

And the Lord removed them from their land in anger, and wrath, and very great indignation, and cast them out into another land as [it is] this day.

And nations shall pass through this city, and each shall say to his neighbor, Why has the Lord done thus to this great city?

And they shall say, Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshipped strange gods, and served them.

Hear this word, you heifers of the land of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor and trample on the needy, which say to their masters, Give us, that we may drink.

That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; and we will trade in every kind of fruit.