“Therefore I will make Samaria (A)a heap of ruins in the field,
Places for planting a vineyard;
I will pour down her stones into the valley,
And I will (B)uncover her foundations.
All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces,
And all her (C)pay as a harlot shall be burned with the fire;
All her idols I will lay desolate,
For she gathered it from the pay of a harlot,
And they shall return to the (D)pay of a harlot.”

Mourning for Israel and Judah

Therefore I will wail and howl,
I will go stripped and naked;
(E)I will make a wailing like the jackals
And a mourning like the ostriches,

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