THE Word of Yahuah that came to El-Miykah the Morashtiy in the days of Yotham, Achaz, and Yechizqiyahu, kings of Yahudah, which he saw concerning Shomeron and Yerushalayim.
Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let Adonai Yahuah be witness against you, Adonai from his holy Temple.
For, behold, Yahuah comes forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
For the transgression of Ya`aqov is all this, and for the sins of the house of Yashar'el. What is the transgression of Ya`aqov? is it not Shomeron? and what are the high places of Yahudah? are they not Yerushalayim?
Therefore I will make Shomeron as a heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.
And all graven images thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the hires thereof shall be burned with the fire, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate: for she gathered it of the hire of a harlot, and they shall return to the hire of a harlot.
Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
For her wound is incurable; for it is come unto Yahudah; he is come unto the gate of my people, even to Yerushalayim.
Declare ye it not at Gath, weep ye not at all: in the house of Aphrah roll yourself in the dust.
Pass ye away, you inhabitant of Shaphiyr, having your shame naked: the inhabitant of Tsa'anan came not forth in the mourning of Beyt Ha-Etsel; he shall receive of you his standing.
For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from Yahuah unto the gate of Yerushalayim.
O you inhabitant of Lakiysh, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Tsiyon: for the transgressions of Yashar'el were found in you.
Therefore shall you give presents to Moresheth Gath: the houses of Akziyv shall be a lie to the kings of Yashar'el.
Yet will I bring an heir unto you, O inhabitant of Mar'eshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Yashar'el.
Make you bald, and poll you for your delicate children; enlarge your baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from you.