¹⁵ You will share that fate, Bethel,
    because of your great wickedness.
When the day of judgment dawns,
    the king of Israel will be completely destroyed.

¹¹ In my anger I gave you kings,
    and in my fury I took them away.

⁷ Samaria and its king will be cut off;
    they will float away like driftwood on an ocean wave.

⁹ But why are you now screaming in terror?
    Have you no king to lead you?
Have your wise people all died?
    Pain has gripped you like a woman in childbirth.

¹⁰ The scepter will not depart from Judah,
    nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants,^[a]
until the coming of the one to whom it belongs,^[b]
    the one whom all nations will honor.

⁵ “But since my people refuse to return to me,
    they will return to Egypt
    and will be forced to serve Assyria.