The inhabitants of Samaria shall dread because of the calves of Beth-aven. For its people shall mourn over it; also its priests shall tremble over it, over its glory, because it has departed from it.

In the day you shall fence in your planting; and in the morning you shall make your seed sprout. But the harvest shall be a heap in the day of sickness and incurable pain.

And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called for weeping and mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who lives in the land of Uz. The cup also shall pass through unto you; you shall become drunk and stripped naked.

It is sharpened to slaughter and butcher, polished to flash like lightning! Should we then make mirth? It despises the scepter of My son, as every tree.

who drink wine from bowls, and anoint themselves with the best of ointments; but they are not grieved for the crushing of Joseph!

Therefore they shall go into captivity with the first of the captives, and the feast of those who recline shall come to an end.

those rejoicing for nothing; who say, Have we not taken horns to ourselves by our own strength?

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation. And I will bring up sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only one; and the end of it like a bitter day.

But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your calamities that are coming upon you.

Yet you did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.

As I live, declares the Lord Jehovah, neither your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done.

What you have in your mind shall never be, when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families in other lands, serving wood and stone.

You only have I known of all the families of the earth. Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.

My people seek advice from their wooden idols, and their magic wand expounds to them. For the spirit of harlotry has led them astray, and they have committed adultery against their God.

They do not devote their doings to turn back to their God. For the spirit of harlotry is in their midst, and they do not know Jehovah.

They have dealt treacherously against Jehovah, for they have brought forth strange sons. Now a new moon shall devour them with their heritage.

And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, of which she has said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me. And I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

But we will prepare and do whatever goes forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the Queen of Heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our rulers, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and were well-off, and saw no evil.