1Woe [to] those secure in Zion, || And those confident on the mountain of Samaria, || The marked of the chief of the nations, || And the house of Israel has come to them.

2Pass over [to] Calneh and see, || And go there [to] Hamath the great, || And go down [to] Gath of the Philistines, || Are [they] better than these kingdoms? [Is] their border greater than your border?

3Who are putting away the day of evil, || And you bring the seat of violence near,

4Who are lying down on beds of ivory, || And are spread out on their couches, || And are eating lambs from the flock, || And calves from the midst of the stall,

5Who are taking part according to the stringed instrument, || Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

6Who are drinking with bowls of wine, || And anoint themselves [with] chief perfumes, || And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

7Therefore they now go at the head of the captives, || And the mourning-feast of stretched-out ones is turned aside.

8Lord YHWH has sworn by Himself, || A declaration of YHWH, God of Hosts: “I am abominating the excellence of Jacob, || And his high places I have hated, || And I have delivered up the city and its fullness.”

9And if there are left ten persons in one house, || It has come to pass—that they have died.

10And his loved one has lifted him up, even his burner, || To bring forth the bones from the house, || And he said to him who [is] in the sides of the house, || “Is there [any] yet with you?” And he said, “None,” || Then he said, “Hush! We must not make mention of the Name of YHWH.”

11For behold, YHWH is commanding, || And He has struck the great house [with] breaches, || And the little house [with] clefts.

12Do horses run on a rock? Does one plow [it] with oxen? For you have turned judgment to gall, || And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

13O you who are rejoicing at nothing, || Who are saying, “Have we not taken to ourselves horns by our strength?”

14“Surely, behold, I am raising a nation against you, O house of Israel,” || A declaration of YHWH, God of Hosts, || “And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, || To the stream of the desert.”