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 [is] 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 [with] breaches, And the little house [with] clefts.
12. Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] 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.