^x“I called out to the Lord, out of my distress,

and he answered me;

^yout of the belly of Sheol I cried,

^zand you heard my voice.

3  ^aFor you cast me into the deep,

into the heart of the seas,

and the flood surrounded me;

^ball your waves and your billows

passed over me.

4  ^cThen I said, ‘I am driven away

from your sight;

^dyet I shall again look

upon your holy temple.’

5  ^eThe waters closed in over me ^fto take my life;

the deep surrounded me;

weeds were wrapped about my head

6  at the roots of the mountains.

I went down to the land

whose bars closed upon me forever;

yet you brought up my life from the pit,

O Lord my God.

7  When my life was fainting away,

I remembered the Lord,

^gand my prayer came to you,

into your holy temple.

8  ^hThose who pay regard to vain idols

ⁱforsake their hope of steadfast love.

9  ^jBut I with the voice of thanksgiving

will sacrifice to you;

what I have vowed I will pay.

^kSalvation belongs to the Lord!”

2  ^eHear, you peoples, all of you;¹

^fpay attention, O earth, and all that is in it,

and ^glet the Lord God be a witness against you,

^hthe Lord from his holy temple.

3  For behold, ⁱthe Lord is coming out of ^jhis place,

and will come down and ^ktread upon the high places of the earth.

4  And ^lthe mountains will melt under him,

and the valleys will split open,

like wax before the fire,

like waters poured down a steep place.

5  All this is for ^mthe transgression of Jacob

and for the sins of the house of Israel.

ⁿWhat is the transgression of Jacob?

Is it not ^dSamaria?

And what is ^othe high place of Judah?

Is it not Jerusalem?

6  Therefore I will make ^dSamaria ^pa heap in the open country,

a place for planting vineyards,

and I will pour down her stones ^qinto the valley

and ^runcover her foundations.

7  All ^sher carved images shall be beaten to pieces,

^tall her wages shall be burned with fire,

and all her idols I will lay waste,

for from ^tthe fee of a prostitute she gathered them,

and to the fee of a prostitute they shall return.

8  ^uFor this I will lament and wail;

I will go ^vstripped and naked;

I will make lamentation ^wlike the jackals,

and mourning ^xlike the ostriches.

9  ^yFor her wound is incurable,

and it has come to Judah;

it has reached to the gate of my people,

to Jerusalem.

10  ^zTell it not in ^aGath;

weep not at all;

in Beth-le-aphrah

^broll yourselves in the dust.

11  Pass on your way,

inhabitants of Shaphir,

^cin nakedness and shame;

the inhabitants of Zaanan

do not come out;

the lamentation of Beth-ezel

shall take away from you its standing place.

12  For the inhabitants of Maroth

wait anxiously for good,

because disaster has come down ^dfrom the Lord

to the gate of Jerusalem.

13  Harness the steeds to the chariots,

inhabitants of ^eLachish;

it was the beginning of sin

to the daughter of Zion,

for in you were found

^fthe transgressions of Israel.

14  Therefore you shall give parting gifts²

to ^gMoresheth-gath;

the houses of ^hAchzib shall be a deceitful thing

to the kings of Israel.

15  I will again bring ⁱa conqueror to you,

inhabitants of ^hMareshah;

the glory of Israel

shall come to ^jAdullam.

16  ^kMake yourselves bald and cut off your hair,

for the children of your delight;

^kmake yourselves as bald as the eagle,

for they shall go from you into exile.

2  ^lWoe to those who devise wickedness

and work evil ^mon their beds!

When the morning dawns, they perform it,

because it is in the power of their hand.

2  They covet fields and ⁿseize them,

and houses, and take them away;

they oppress a man and his house,

a man and his inheritance.

3  Therefore thus says the Lord:

behold, against ^othis family I am devising disaster,¹

from which you cannot remove your necks,

and you ^pshall not walk haughtily,

^qfor it will be a time of disaster.

4  In that day ^rthey shall take up a taunt song against you

and moan bitterly,

and say, “We are utterly ruined;

^she changes the portion of my people;

^show he removes it from me!

^tTo an apostate he allots our fields.”

5  Therefore you will have none ^uto cast the line by lot

in the assembly of the Lord.

6  ^v“Do not preach”—thus they preach—

^w“one should not preach of such things;

^xdisgrace will not overtake us.”

7  Should this be said, O house of Jacob?

^vHas the Lord grown impatient?²

Are these his deeds?

Do not my words do good

to him who walks uprightly?

8  But lately ^ymy people have risen up as an enemy;

you strip the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly

with no thought of war.³

9  The women of my people you drive out

from their delightful houses;

from their young children you take away

my splendor forever.

10  ^zArise and go,

for this is no ^aplace to rest,

because of ^buncleanness that destroys

with a grievous destruction.

11  If a man should go about and ^cutter wind and lies,

saying, “I will preach to you ^dof wine and strong drink,”

he would be the preacher for this people!

12  I will surely assemble all of you, O Jacob;

^eI will gather ^fthe remnant of Israel;

I will set them together

like sheep in a fold,

^hlike a flock in its pasture,

a noisy multitude of men.

13  ⁱHe who opens the breach goes up before them;

they break through and pass the gate,

^jgoing out by it.

Their king passes on before them,

^kthe Lord at their head.