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Hear, you peoples, all of ^(F1)you; ^(C1)Listen carefully, earth and ^(F2)all it contains, And may the Lord ^(F3)GOD be a ^(C2)witness against you, The Lord from His holy temple.

For behold, the LORD is ^(C1)coming forth from His place. He will come down and ^(C2)tread on the high places of the ^(F1)earth.

^(C1)The mountains will melt under Him And the valleys will be split, Like wax before the fire, Like water poured down a steep place.

All this is due to the ^(F1)wrongdoing of Jacob And the sins of the house of Israel. What is the ^(F1)(C1)wrongdoing of Jacob? Is it not ^(C2)Samaria? What is the ^(C3)high ^(F2)place of Judah? Is it not Jerusalem?

For I will make Samaria a ^(C1)heap of ruins ^(F1)in the open country, ^(C2)Planting places for a vineyard. I will ^(C3)hurl her stones down into the valley, And ^(C4)lay bare her foundations.

All of her ^(C1)idols will be crushed, All of her earnings will be burned with fire, And all of her images I will make desolate; For she collected them from a ^(C2)prostitute's earnings, And to the earnings of a prostitute they will return.