Mourning for Israel and Judah

8 Therefore I will wail and howl,

I will go stripped and naked;

jI will make a wailing like the jackals

And a mourning like the ostriches,

9 For her wounds are incurable.

For kit has come to Judah;

It has come to the gate of My people—

To Jerusalem.

10 lTell it not in Gath,

Weep not at all;

In 1Beth Aphrah

Roll yourself in the dust.

11 Pass by in naked shame, you inhabitant of 2Shaphir;

The inhabitant of 3Zaanan does not go out.

Beth Ezel mourns;

Its place to stand is taken away from you.

12 For the inhabitant of 4Maroth 5pined for good,

But mdisaster came down from the Lord

To the gate of Jerusalem.

13 O inhabitant of nLachish,

Harness the chariot to the swift steeds

(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),

For the transgressions of Israel were ofound in you.

14 Therefore you shall pgive presents to 6Moresheth Gath;

The houses of qAchzib 7shall be a lie to the kings of Israel.

15 I will yet bring an heir to you, O inhabitant of rMareshah; 8

The glory of Israel shall come to sAdullam. 9

16 Make yourself tbald and cut off your hair,

Because of your uprecious children;

Enlarge your baldness like an eagle,

For they shall go from you into vcaptivity.