⁸ I will ·moan and cry [mourn and wail] because of this evil,
    going around barefoot and naked.
I will ·cry loudly [wail] like ·the wild dogs [jackals]
    and ·make sad sounds [moan] like the ·owls [or ostriches] do,
⁹ because Samaria’s wound ·cannot be healed [is incurable].
    It ·will spread [or has spread] to Judah;
it ·will reach [or has reached] the city gate of my people [^Cwhere the city’s affairs were conducted],
    all the way to Jerusalem.
¹⁰ Don’t tell it in Gath [^Csounds like Hebrew for “tell”; Gath and the cities in this list were in Assyria’s path of destruction in 701 bc].
    Don’t cry ·in Acco [or at all; ^Cthe Hebrew for “cry” sounds like Acco].
Roll in the dust
    at Beth Ophrah [^C“house of dust”].