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Because of the peysha (transgression) of Ya’akov is all this, and because of the chattot Bais Yisroel. What is the peysha of Ya’akov? Is it not Shomron? And what are the high places of Yehudah? Are they not Yerushalayim?

Therefore I will make Shomron like a rubble heap of the sadeh, and like a place for planting a kerem (vineyard); and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will lay bare her foundations.

And all the pesilim thereof shall be beaten to pieces, and all the etnan (temple proceeds of cult prostitution) shall be burned with the eish, and all the idols thereof will I lay desolate; for she [i.e., Shomron] gathered of the etnan (wage) of a zonah, and they shall revert to the etnan (wage) of a zonah.

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