^{6 Ref} And I have set Samaria for a heap of the field, For plantations of a vineyard, And poured out into a valley her stones, And her foundations I uncover.

^{7 Ref} And all her graven images are beaten down, And all her gifts are burnt with fire, And all her idols I make a desolation, For, from the hire of a harlot she gathered, and unto the hire of a harlot they return.

^{8 Ref} For this I lament and howl, I go spoiled and naked, I make a lamentation like dragons, And a mourning like daughters of an ostrich.

^{9 Ref} For mortal `are' her wounds, For it hath come unto Judah, It hath come to a gate of My people -- to Jerusalem.