⁹ The head of Ephraim is Samaria,^(A)
    and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son.
If you do not stand^(B) firm in your faith,^(C)
    you will not stand at all.’”^(D)

¹⁴ Those who swear by the sin of Samaria^(A)—
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’^(B)
    or, ‘As surely as the god^[a] of Beersheba^(C) lives’—
    they will fall,^(D) never to rise again.^(E)”