For behold, Yahweh is coming out from his place, and he will come down and tread upon the high places of the earth.

The mountains will melt under him and the valleys will burst open, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

So I will make Samaria as a heap of rubble in the field, a place for planting a vineyard. And I will pour down her stones into the valley and uncover her foundations.

For the inhabitants of Maroth writhed for good, because disaster has come down from Yahweh to the gate of Jerusalem.

And the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the wild animals of the forest, like a young lion among the herds of sheep which, when it passes through and treads [down] and tears in pieces, there is none who [can] deliver.

And I will cut off your idols and your stone pillars from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

"O my people, what have I done to you, and how have I wearied you? Answer me!

With what shall I approach Yahweh, and bow down to God on high? Shall I approach him with burnt offerings, with bull calves a year old?

And I also {have made you sick by striking you down}, making [you] desolate because of your sins.