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1 - Woe <FI>to<Fi> those secure in Zion, And those confident in the mount of Samaria, The marked of the chief of the nations, And come to them have the house of Israel.

2 - Pass ye over <FI>to<Fi> Calneh and see, And go thence <FI>to<Fi> Hamath the great, And go down <FI>to<Fi> Gath of the Philistines, Are <FI>they<Fi> better than these kingdoms? Greater <FI>is<Fi> their border than your border?

3 - Who are putting away the day of evil, And ye bring nigh the seat of violence,

4 - Who 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,

5 - Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

6 - Who are drinking with bowls of wine, And <FI>with<Fi> chief perfumes anoint <FI>themselves<Fi> , And have not been pained for the breach of Joseph.

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

8 - Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by Himself, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts: I am abominating the excellency of Jacob, And his high places I have hated, And I have delivered up the city and its fulness.

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

10 - And lifted him up hath his loved one, even his burner, To bring forth the bones from the house, And he said to him who <FI>is<Fi> in the sides of the house, `Is there yet with thee?' And he said, `None,' then he said, `Hush! Save to make mention of the name of Jehovah.'

11 - For lo, Jehovah is commanding, And He hath smitten the great house <FI>with<Fi> breaches, And the little house <FI>with<Fi> clefts.

12 - Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough <FI>it<Fi> with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

13 - O ye who are rejoicing at nothing, Who are saying, `Have we not by our strength taken to ourselves horns?'

14 - Surely, lo, I am raising against you a nation, O house of Israel, An affirmation of Jehovah, God of Hosts, And they have oppressed you from the coming in to Hamath, Unto the stream of the desert.