Therefore I will make Samaria a heap in the open country, a place for planting vineyards, and I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.

All her carved images shall be beaten to pieces, all her wages shall be burned with fire, and all her idols I will lay waste, for from the fee of a prostitute she gathered them, and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

I will again bring a conqueror to you, inhabitants of Mareshah; the glory of Israel shall come to Adullam.

If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, “I will preach to you of wine and strong drink,” he would be the preacher for this people!

I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob; I will gather the remnant of Israel; I will set them together like sheep in a fold, like a flock in its pasture, a noisy multitude of men.

The Lord Shall Rescue Zion

In that day, declares the Lord, I will assemble the lame and gather those who have been driven away and those whom I have afflicted;

and the lame I will make the remnant, and those who were cast off, a strong nation; and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion from this time forth and forevermore.

Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.

And in that day, declares the Lord, I will cut off your horses from among you and will destroy your chariots;

and I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds;

and I will cut off sorceries from your hand, and you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;

and I will cut off your carved images and your pillars from among you, and you shall bow down no more to the work of your hands;

and I will root out your Asherah images from among you and destroy your cities.

And in anger and wrath I will execute vengeance on the nations that did not obey.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied, and there shall be hunger within you; you shall put away, but not preserve, and what you preserve I will give to the sword.

But as for me, I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord because I have sinned against him, until he pleads my cause and executes judgment for me. He will bring me out to the light; I shall look upon his vindication.

As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them marvelous things.