1 Woe to you who are complacent in Zion, and to you who feel secure on Mount Samaria, you notable men of the foremost nation, to whom the people of Israel come!2 Go to Kalneh and look at it; go from there to great Hamath, and then go down to Gath in Philistia. Are they better off than your two kingdoms? Is their land larger than yours?3 You put off the day of disaster and bring near a reign of terror.4 You lie on beds adorned with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs and fattened calves.5 You strum away on your harps like David and improvise on musical instruments.6 You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest lotions, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.7 Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile; your feasting and lounging will end.8 The Sovereign LORD has sworn by himself —the LORD God Almighty declares: "I abhor the pride of Jacob and detest his fortresses; I will deliver up the city and everything in it."9 If ten people are left in one house, they too will die.10 And if the relative who comes to carry the bodies out of the house to burn them "asks anyone who might be hiding there, "Is anyone else with you?" and he says, "No," then he will go on to say, "Hush! We must not mention the name of the LORD."11 For the LORD has given the command, and he will smash the great house into pieces and the small house into bits.12 Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea "with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness —13 you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar "and say, "Did we not take Karnaim "by our own strength?"14 For the LORD God Almighty declares, "I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah."

1 [V qui opulenti estis in Sion,et confiditis in monte Samari :optimates capita populorum,ingredientes pompatice domum Isral !2 Transite in Chalane, et videte,et ite inde in Emath magnam,et descendite in Geth Palstinorum,et ad optima quque regna horum :si latior terminus eorum termino vestro est.3 Qui separati estis in diem malum,et appropinquatis solio iniquitatis ;4 qui dormitis in lectis eburneis,et lascivitis in stratis vestris ;qui comeditis agnum de grege,et vitulos de medio armenti ;5 qui canitis ad vocem psalterii,sicut David putaverunt se habere vasa cantici,6 bibentes vinum in phialis,et optimo unguento delibuti,et nihil patiebantur super contritione Joseph.7 Quapropter nunc migrabunt in capite transmigrantium,et auferetur factio lascivientium.8 Juravit Dominus Deus in anima sua,dicit Dominus Deus exercituum :Detestor ego superbiam Jacob,et domos ejus odi,et tradam civitatem cum habitatoribus suis.9 Quod si reliqui fuerint decem viri in domo una,et ipsi morientur.10 Et tollet eum propinquus suus, et comburet eum,ut efferat ossa de domo ;et dicet ei, qui in penetralibus domus est :Numquid adhuc est penes te ?11 Et respondebit : Finis est.Et dicet ei : Tace,et non recorderis nominis Domini.12 Quia ecce Dominus mandabit,et percutiet domum majorem ruinis,et domum minorem scissionibus.13 Numquid currere queunt in petris equi,aut arari potest in bubalis ?quoniam convertistis in amaritudinem judicium,et fructum justiti in absinthium.14 Qui ltamini in nihilo ; qui dicitis :Numquid non in fortitudine nostra assumpsimus nobis cornua ?15 Ecce enim suscitabo super vos, domus Isral,dicit Dominus Deus exercituum, gentem,et conteret vos ab introitu Emath usque ad torrentem deserti.]