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Woe to those who despise Zion and to those who trust in the mountain of Samaria! They harvested the chiefs of the nations, and they themselves went in, O house of Israel.
Pass over, all of you, and see, and go through from there to Emath Rabba, and go down from there to Geth of the Philistines, the mightiest of all these kingdoms; are their borders greater than your borders?
For the Lord swore by himself: I abhor all the arrogance of Jacob, and I have hated his regions; and I will take away the city with all who dwell in it.
And their kinsmen shall take them and force their way to carry their bones out of the house; and one shall say to those in charge of the house: Is there anyone still with you? And he shall say: No more. And he shall say: Be silent, so as not to name the name of the Lord.
Will horses run upon rocks? Will they keep silence among mares? Yet you have turned judgment into wrath, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
For behold, I raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, and they shall afflict you, so that you cannot enter into Emath, and as far as the torrent of the west.